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The Innkeeper’s Wife

A SHORT STORY

Joseph Benevento

My plan had been to stay with my brother and to have his wife help with the delivery. Where was the Lord of Hosts when you needed Him?

Dystopia 101

A POST-'TRADITIONIS CUSTODES' SHORT STORY

John Cussen

An example of a powerful ruler who should be like a caring elder but seems more bent on crushing dissent comes from an unexpected source.

An Amazing Turn

A SHORT STORY

Alex Kudera

She wanted to fly in and meet. At the airport, he was disappointed by how she looked in person. But by that stage in his life, he didn’t think he could do better.

Behemoth Goes Back to Bed

A SHORT STORY

Jeffrey Wald

An enormous fat cat, reminiscent of a miniature hippopotamus, strolled the sidewalk. It had been decades since he’d been out. Some things were different...

Infinite Monkey Theorem

A SHORT STORY

Joshua Hren

I hated myself for helping the ape. I hated the pleasure his development gave me, like I was a god lifting this furry mute from stupidity.

Screwtape 2020

GUEST COLUMN

Michael Thomas Cibenko

The devil sees shepherds "withholding essential nourishment" from their flocks as "a delightful thing to behold."

Culture Wars, Inc.

A MORALITY TALE ABRIDGED FOR MODERN READERS

Hilarious Bookbinder

When Cosmoception Corporation sponsored a Coming Out of the Closet Celebration, the company ordered a rainbow-striped cake from Redneck Delicacies, a small shop tucked in the Appalachians.

A Trialogue With C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther & Thomas Aquinas

IS THERE SUCH A THING AS 'MERE CHRISTIANITY'?

Peter Kreeft

C.S. Lewis is sitting alone late at night at his big oak desk at The Kilns, Oxford, writing Mere Christianity, his little masterpiece...

Love & Reason: A Dialogue

THE HORNS OF A PRISONER'S DILEMMA — PART II

John M. Gist

Without love, we can never be wise and are but fools. Without love, reason is without righteousness. Without love, there is no method in the madness of living.

Rational Self-Interest & Justice: A Dialogue

THE HORNS OF A PRISONER'S DILEMMA — PART I

John M. Gist

Two lovers have been arrested for a felony. The case detective knows they're guilty but may not get a conviction unless he can get one of the two to confess.

The Penitent Pigeon

A SHORT STORY

Andrew M. Seddon

Would a woman like Pelagia truly repent in public? Would she put aside her pride and status, all that she had lived for, to humble herself before the citizens of Antioch?

Wheat of Lions

A SHORT STORY

Andrew M. Seddon

Guards tied some of the condemned to posts, while others — presumably the fleetest — were left loose so the lions could chase them for added sport.

Miracles Do Not Speak Halfway

A SHORT STORY

Mitchell Kalpakgian

Miracles do not just occur in the Gospels or in the lifetime of Christ. They can happen in ordinary life to anyone.

One Red Rose for Christmas

A CATHOLIC VISION OF LIFE

Mitchell Kalpakgian

God loves and cares for all human beings and manifests the same divine favors to a wayward child that He grants to a devout mother superior.

What Part of "Is" Don't They Understand?

"THIS IS MY BODY"

Brent T. Zeringue

Meet Reverend Ian Protestus, R.I.P. as he is commonly called, who left the Catholic Church ten years ago and holds a doctorate from Rapture University.

A Private's Affair

OLD PRIEST, NEW PRIEST

Brent T. Zeringue

Yag Nam has approached young Fr. Logicus, the new priest assigned to Yag’s Bay Area church, to hear his confession...

The Bileworm Memorandum

SIX STRATEGIES FOR SATANIC SOVEREIGNTY

Eugene Hoyas

The devil shares his business plan to destroy "orthodox fools" through schism, revolution, division, and other tactics.

The Great Realignment of 2004-2012: The Catholic Church Splits, The Episcopal Church Triumphs

LOOKING BACKWARD FROM YEAR 2015

Lee Penn

The Dead Sea Polls

GUEST COLUMN

Larry A. Carstens

A scroll was recently found in a clay pot in a cave. The writer belonged to an influential class of ancient Judeans called the Amerisees.

The Cloning of Margaret Fanger

THE FOUNDER OF CANNED PARENTHOOD

Brent T. Zeringue

This fictional piece uses exact quotes of the real-life Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.

Sexual Confusion at Kinsey Elementary School

INFORMATION OVERLOAD FOR KIDS

Brent T. Zeringue

An Immodest Proposal

TRULY "PRO-CHILD, PRO-FAMILY & PRO-CHOICE"

Andrea Burman

A Catholic Schoolboy Meets the President

FIRST COMMUNICANTS SHARE MEMORIES

Brent T. Zeringue

Bejesus Seminar Discovers New Gospel in Desert, Common Sand & Call to Faction Supporters Jubilant

A SENSITIVE JESUS WHO SAYS HE'S SORRY & GOES FREE

Andrea Burman

Enlightenment?

HOW THE SECULARISTS SEE THINGS

Peter Kreeft

New World Aborning

A SHORT STORY

Sheldon Vanauken

Settling into my seat on the train, I glanced at the kindly-looking elderly gentleman facing me. He watched me as I took out three books I'd brought along.

A Trialogue With C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther & Thomas Aquinas

IS THERE SUCH A THING AS 'MERE CHRISTIANITY'?

Peter Kreeft

Michael's Pillow

A SHORT STORY

J. Mulrooney

Jingo

A SHORT STORY

Binney Paik

Socrates Meets the Modern World (or, the Myth of Progress)

ANCIENT WISDOM VS. MODERN KNOWLEDGE

Peter Kreeft

Easy Pickings

A SHORT STORY

Carl R. Schmahl

The Screwtape Letters, 1985

HOW TO UNDERMINE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

John Mallon

Wormwood’s younger cousin, Lackluster, has received an unprecedented appointment for so young a demon.

Socrates on “Rock”

THE POWER OF MUSIC

Peter Kreeft

Socrates would say that good music is music that makes the soul better, that is, more harmonious, and bad music is music that makes the soul unharmonious.

Socrates on Communism & Capitalism

WHAT, THEN, IS THE DIFFERENCE?

Peter Kreeft

Socrates asks what would happen to a capitalist nation if everyone practiced the greedlessness of Jesus, or Buddha, or even Thoreau?

Socrates on “Pot”

CLICHÉS QUESTIONED

Peter Kreeft

Here he is — the wonderful troublemaker, the gadfly of Athens who makes difficulties everywhere, especially where life is too easy for thought or thought too easy for honesty.