A Gender Theorist Explains Why He Stopped Watching Porn
There are powerful financial interests who have a stake in defending porn. Religious voices have been marginalized. But secular witnesses are speaking up.
Is This What Women Want? Why ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Became A Box Office Smash
The millions of women attracted to “Fifty Shades of Grey” aren’t looking for abuse. Many are expressing a distorted desire for a lost sense of romance, rooted in traditional ideas about male-female differences. Men and women will keep looking for love in self-destructive ways until a healthy understanding of sexual difference is restored.
Has Secular Media Coverage of the Catholic Church “Gone Bananas”?
When does ignorance become an excuse for anti-Catholic bigotry?
Let the New Evangelization Begin
John Paul II and Benedict XVI set the theological groundwork for the new evangelization. With Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis calls Catholics to implement it. Are you ready to evangelize the world?
Pope Poverello
The new Pope took the name of the saint who most embodied the radical poverty of Christ—St. Francis
Help Wanted: A Bold, Effective Pope
The challenge of rolling back secularism will require visionary leadership.
Benedict’s ‘Communio-ist Manifesto’
Caritas in Veritate’s vision of human development is based on a radical opening to God, a proposal as audacious as the secular utopias of recent centuries in its call for the transformation of every aspect of life through self-giving love.
The Failure of Speculative Capitalism
A financial system that purposely channels greed into speculation, rather than into productive investment, is inherently irrational and unstable.
The Future of the Catholic Voter? An InsideCatholic Symposium
Until Catholics develop the courage to organize for radical change based on the Church’s authentic teaching on social concerns, we will continue to be a weak presence in the public square.
What Now? Reflections on the 2008 Election
We need a new pro-life politics that opens up a second front in the abortion battle within the Democratic Party.
How the Media Is Missing Pope Benedict’s Radical Critique of American Religion
The Pope praised America for its strong religious faith, but warned that the country’s secular culture too often leads Catholics to profess faith in Christ in church on Sunday, but to leave their faith behind the rest of the week.
David Schindler on Going Beyond Benedict, ‘the American Pope’
For Pope Benedict and the theologian David L. Schindler, freedom is not about having lots of choices; it’s about our natural desire for God, and what is good, true and beautiful.
The Pope, the ‘La Sapienza’ Protests, and the Death Of Irony
The best postmodern thinkers used irony to expose the flaws of Western rationalism. But when their progeny turned on reason itself, their capacity to perceive irony disappeared.
A Review of ‘The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace’
The Vocation of Business by John Médaille may not be the book that sparks a revolution of virtue-based business practicies, but it's an important stepping stone in that direction.
Benedict XVI, The Peace Pope
What accounts for the disconnect between conservative American Catholics and papal pronouncements about war?
Into Iraq With ‘Generation Kill’: An Interview with Evan Wright
Evan Wright spent two months living with twenty-three marines from First Recon, the elite unit who spearheaded the invasion of Iraq. In magazine articles and his book ‘Generation Kill’, Wright chronicled the triumphs and horrors—physical, moral, emotional, and spiritual—that these marines endured. We talked to him about his experience of the Iraq War, and the human costs of ‘just wars.’
The Pope and St. Joseph on Wall Street
Economic freedom, like other God-given freedoms — political, scientific, artistic, sexual — is good, but only when ordered to the truth of the human person.
‘The Street’ Doesn’t Care About Your Customers
When the Internet bubble burst, Tom Cunningham's start-up companies were hit hard, but they survived by re-focusing on business fundamentals. Enron wasn't so fortunate.
Why Enron Should Have Listened To the Pope
Enron, at one time the nation's seventh-largest company by revenue, is bankrupt today because of speculation. Enron executives used entirely legal but unsound accounting tricks and financing schemes to push up its stock price and cash in on the biggest bull market in history. A New York Times article summed it up: Enron “was not much of a company, but its executives made sure it was one hell of a stock.”