Letters to the Editor: November 2024

Artificial Intelligence: Garbage In, Garbage Out?... Deification Here Below... The Obligations of Priests Abroad... Flickers of Life Amid the Ruins... and more

The News You May Have Missed: November 2024

Ersatz Exorcists... Aged to Putrefaction... Your Thoughts Are Your Own... The Naked Eye... A Different Dover... See-Through You... and more

The Rise & Fall of the Human Life Amendment

THE END OF ROE & THE REIGN OF DOBBS

Paul James Macrae

Dobbs was the triumph of the “states’ rights” approach to abortion, an approach that never had the consensus backing of the pro-life movement.

Time & the Longing for Eternity

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #56

Edmund B. Miller

Flannery O'Connor’s writing is not grotesque, not fantastic; it’s merely simple — which is to say that for her, in the end, there are only two options: time or eternity.

Revisiting & Redefining Universal Salvation

PERFECT JUSTICE COUPLED WITH PERFECT MERCY

Hurd Baruch

Let us acknowledge that there is a Hell, and that there are souls in it. Is there a way to reconcile that reality with the concept of universal salvation?

Indiff’rent Strokes

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

In blurting out his opinion of the supposedly wonderful and God-gifted diversity of religions in a slapdash manner, Francis does great injustice to the Catholic religion.

An American Catholic in Panama

REVERT'S ROSTRUM

Casey Chalk

All the parishes offer an uninspiring modern liturgical style, the banality of which partly explains why Protestants are making such impressive inroads here.

When Luxuries Become Necessities & Necessities Become Luxuries

PERVERSE OUTCOMES

Eric Brende

The affluent of today are likeliest to enjoy the pleasures of a yeoman of yore. This, perhaps more than anything now, sets apart the “haves” from the “have-nots.”

A Hard Work for a Soft Age

Christopher Beiting

The whole point of the Pensées is that we are broken and cannot fix ourselves. Pascal was wiser than most of his contemporaries, and he is wiser than most of ours.

Briefly Reviewed: November 2024

Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell... Coached by Josemaría Escrivá: Lessons in Discipleship by Fr. John Henry Hanson, O. Praem.