What Price Freedom?

EDITORIAL

Pieter Vree

The NOR has a legacy of independence that I’m bound to honor no matter the cost — a cost that has been steep.

The News You May Have Missed: April 2025

Cathedral Casualty... Not Your Yogi... Flying the Unfriendly Skies... Marrying for Money... Wigging Out... (Cow’s) Egg on Your Face... and more

Letters to the Editor: April 2025

Mistaken about Marriage... Identifying Value Despair... Foolish Fighting Words... Our Fork in the Road... A Weapon for Spiritual Battle... and more

Theosis: The Nexus of Ecology & Eschatology

ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

Louise Zwick

Dorothy Day often quoted St. Catherine of Siena, emphasizing one particular saying of hers: “All the way to heaven is heaven because He said ‘I am the Way.’”

The Burden of History & the Promise of Divine Life

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #57

Edmund B. Miller

After grappling with "A Canticle for Leibowitz," I found that Walter M. Miller Jr.’s novel attempts to study nothing less than the whole problem of history.

On Love & Friendship

AN INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY RIZZI

Christopher Beiting

Love is seeing, via the senses through the intellect, the good and the true in and of another. Friends are those who love each other and seek mutual growth in the truth.

Transitioning Back to Sanity

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

Pharmaceutical giants, healthcare providers, insurance companies — they all stand to profit from the proliferation of what’s labeled "gender-affirming care."

Antidote to the Ideologization of Children’s Literature

REVERT'S ROSTRUM

Casey Chalk

When a storyteller has a true love and respect for his young audience, it is evident, and any imparted moral lessons are carefully and charitably communicated.

Rethinking Capitalism

Jerry D. Salyer

Catholic defenders of capitalism might argue it must be subjected to and bound by some higher authority rooted in religion, culture, or the natural law.

Briefly Reviewed: April 2025

Here we review: Turning Points in American Church History: How Pivotal Events Shaped a Nation and a Faith... The Church in the Flesh