Category: Religion

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.

The Accommodation That Wasn’t

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

Reason, Traditionalism, and the Enlightenment

We should be able to show how our use of reason is both more true to the demands of the intellect and does not depend upon tradition or a misuse of what people call “faith.”