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  When he was in high school, my eldest son was assigned Jonathan Edwards’s famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” He was to compare it with a sermon of his own choosing—one his deeply Calvinist teacher might expect him to find wanting in light of the... Read More →

  It was an overcast afternoon ten years ago when all hell broke loose. A massive earthquake hit off the Pacific coast of Japan, rocking buildings from the Sendai area—where it was the strongest—all the way down to Tokyo and farther south. The quake-wracked ground broke open... Read More →

  [Timothy Cardinal Dolan is the Archbishop of New York. This column appeared on January 13 on the website of Catholic New York (www.cny.org) and is reprinted with the Cardinal’s permission.]   “Why are you Catholics so hung up about abortion?” this rather well-known... Read More →

  [Matthew Hennessey is associate editorial-page features editor at the Wall Street Journal. The following article was published in the January 2021 issue of First Things (firstthings.com) and is reprinted with the magazine’s permission.] Magdalena loves potatoes. Doesn’t... Read More →

  [Madeleine Kearns is a staff writer for National Review. The following article appears in the January 25, 2021, print edition of the magazine. Copyright 2021 by National Review. Reprinted by permission.] Since Poland’s constitutional court outlawed eugenic abortion in... Read More →

  [David Mills is a senior editor of The Stream (https://stream.org/), where the following column was published on January 14, 2021. Reprinted with permission.] It depends on who gets disappeared. The “grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo” had worn white headscarves when they... Read More →

  [Stacy Trasancos, who holds a PhD in chemistry, is the Executive Director of the St. Philip Institute of Catechesis and Evangelization in Tyler, Texas. The following article was originally published by the National Catholic Register. Stacy Trasancos: © 2020 EWTN News, Inc.... Read More →

The future looks bright. Against Roe and its progeny come Scheidler and his: seven children and (so far) 10 grandchildren. Two of his children, Eric, 36, and Annie, 26, work full-time for the Pro-Life Action League. And they are NOW’s worst nightmare: educated, energetic, erudite... Read More →

  “Life is cheap” is an expression usually reserved for primitive peoples or violent times, be it warring tribes and clans slaughtering each other like chickens or the showdown-at-noon culture of the American Wild West. At least drawing six-shooters was between two men... Read More →

  I was seven years old when Neil Simon’s Broadway play The Odd Couple became a TV series. Forty-five years later, I still remember Oscar and Felix as perfect embodiments of the liberated and the oppressed—which, I suppose, might reveal something about my own organizational... Read More →