The Bishop of Springfield, Illinois, Thomas Paprocki, has issued a decree barring the leadership of the state legislator and Catholic lawmakers who voted for one of the most radically pro-abortion laws in the country from receiving Holy Communion. He did so with some excellent language
Kevin D. Williamson points to two tactics that have become part of our political culture, introducing two words that Americans today need to know: ochlocracy (mob rule, indirect as well as direct) and streitbare Demokratie (“militant democracy,” the notion that maintaining liberalism may require illiberal means).
Christianity Today has published a remarkably insightful article by the junior senator from Missouri, Josh Hawley entitled The Age of Pelagius. An adaptation of a commencement address at King’s College, the piece argues that the ancient heresy of Pelagius–that we are saved by our will–is at
In our post about the controversy over the direction of conservatism between Sohrab Ahmari and David French, I raised the question about whether the debate might have something to do with the theological differences between Roman Catholics and Evangelicals. Ahmari is a Catholic, who says
Les Murray, one of Australia’s greatest writers, died a few weeks ago. He described himself as “a subhuman redneck who writes poems.” Others have called him “the patron saint of misfits” and “amongst the greatest English-language poets since Yeats.” It is said that he “sang
We have been discussing different political ideologies, including debates between Christians. It’s worth asking now, what do the various Christian perspectives on politics–no matter where they fall on the ideological spectrum–have in common? That is, what are the specific political implications and influences of Christianity?
We have been examining different conservative ideologies. But there are also different ideologies and policy prescriptions on the left. One that seems to be coming back into vogue is “corporatism.” This had its origins with Mussolini. Kevin D. Williamson explains in his National Review article Elizabeth
We have been blogging about the different kinds of conservatism: the individualistic version–which values autonomy, free markets, personal liberty–and the collective version, which values nationalism, institutions, and social order. Put in other ways, there are libertarians and Burkeans, free traders and protectionists, big business conservatives
The estimable Peter Leithart has written a must-read piece in First Things entitled Heroic Domesticity. It begins as a reading of the Book of Proverbs, specifically the women it describes, from the conflict between Lady Wisdom and Lady Folly to the culminating portrait of the Excellent Wife.
This week’s European Union elections proved to be yet another election in which the voters confounded the experts. The center-left and center-right parties–known for their technocratic managerial style of governance–that have long run the EU lost big. The winners were the more militant progressives, including
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