The Editors

Articles in this category are by individual or multiple editors, or guest authors to the blog.

Lent: An Encounter, Not an Event

Secularizing Lent pushes Christians to treat it as another “resolution making” event. But it is really a time to rend hearts, not garments.

Religious Freedom and the Triumph of the Therapeutic

Do the Bishops want to send the message to Obama that his main sin is not being Lockean enough? Or that something deeper is really what’s at stake?

Catholics & Birth Control: The Tip of an Infertility Iceberg

Over 30% of self-identified American Christians are sterilized. And that should be unnerving for anyone.

Newt Gingrich and a Guilty Mind

Speaker Gingrich wants to fix our problems but he appears unwilling to acknowledge the depths of his own.

The Accommodation That Wasn’t

Friday’s contraception “compromise” proves the White House believes that Americans are idiots.