Letters to the Editor: April 2022

Inside the Numbers... An Eloquent Pundit... Preaching from the Sky Chair... A Hideous Debris Field... Accidental Alignment... and more

The News You May Have Missed: April 2022

The Other Ottawa... Stuck in Zhengzhou Again... The Scent of Spuds... Bezos’s Big Big Boat... An Act of Joy, an Act of Justice... and more

The Divine Life of St. Nazianz

MYSTERIOUS EVENTS IN THE WISCONSIN WOODS

Tom Basil

This Catholic town was created out of raw Wisconsin woodlands by a single priest as a utopian religious haven.

Is Religious Belief a Type of Knowledge?

ON THE PRESUMPTION OF NATURE’S INTELLIGIBILITY

Thomas M. Lessl

Belief in the order and intelligibility of nature entered into scientific thinking in cultures that derived these premises from religion.

Jonathan Swift, Proto-Feminist?

A POET “WELL AHEAD OF HIS TIMES”

Paul Krause

Contrary to current readings popular in the ivory tower, Swift was aghast at the moral collapse occurring around him.

A Synod on What?

AN AMORPHOUS & ILL-DEFINED TERM AND EVENT

Pieter Vree

How can the Synod on Synodality be a rebalancing of ecclesial powers? It is, after all, the brainchild of the most powerful of ecclesial figures.

For Mature Audiences Only

REVERT'S ROSTRUM

Casey Chalk

America’s conception of sex is downright sophomoric, and its overhaul starts with understanding what sex is and what it is for.

Judeo-Christian Westernism: An Impossible Triangulation

Jason M. Morgan

The conceit of the Enlightenment was that we could have the good of Christendom without the Church. “Judeo-Christian Westernism” assumes this.

Jihad in the Modern World

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Fourteen centuries after the death of Muhammad, jihad remains a major obstacle to the full integration of Muslims into modern society.

Briefly Reviewed: April 2022

Reviews of The Day Is Now Far Spent by Robert Cardinal Sarah, and Mère Marie of the Ursulines: A Study in Adventure by Agnes Repplier.

Last Things: April 2022

David Mills

The bigot isn’t the man who thinks he’s right. Every sane man thinks he’s right. The bigot is the man who cannot understand how the other man came to be wrong.