2+ hour, 2+ min ago   (76+ words) Image by Sipa USA via AP. Germán S. Díaz del Castillo is associate editor at First Things. Virginia Aabram is newsletter editor at First Things. Several weeks after Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes, wreaking havoc in lower Manhattan and at…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (337+ words) Here’s a simple, biblical truth: We’re never as smart as we think we are, and we’re never as wise as we need to be. The best intentions can have unintended consequences. The data are at least plausible. They warrant some…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (444+ words) Contrary to online chatter, we are not in a “Catholic moment.” But we may already be in an evangelical century. The previous “Catholic moment,” lasting from 1995 to 2002 by Bottum’s reckoning, failed to fill the Mainline Protestant void. Rather, the post-Protestant…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (280+ words) First Things Who Gets Custody of the Latin Mass? In any messy breakup, there are the inevitable conflagrations over custody of the kids, the dog, the vinyl collection. The parting of ways between the Catholic Church and the Society of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (262+ words) It is not my place to tell the Church what time it is. Benedict already did that, as this essay, which I wrote with my friend Sam Wolfe, attempts to show. My humble hope is that others might succeed where…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (780+ words) First Things And so it has happened. The Society of St. Pius X has gone ahead with its illicit ordination of four new bishops, and the Vatican has responded with the expected announcement that the act is schismatic, incurring the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (120+ words) And yet, simply because modern applications of just war theory are outdated (or misunderstood and misused) does not mean we are called to discard the theory. Rather, we need to revisit it from the evangelical counter-praxis of love. War, for…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (304+ words) Christians instinctively, and rightly, protest. Our bodies are cunningly designed and, as Carl Trueman has insisted, they aren’t raw material to shape to our whims. We’re creatures, bounded and finite, necessarily limited in our knowing and acting. Any attempt to…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (249+ words) Offensive Christianity:Restoring the Strength of Men in a Feminized Ageby j. chase davisfounders press, 184 pages, $19.98 A new birth of manliness is a prerequisite for a new birth of offensive Christianity. By “offensive Christianity,” Davis means both a Christianity unworried about…...

3+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (244+ words) While this may not be an urgent problem for Yeats scholars, it does present a difficulty for an institution with teaching authority like the Church. The integrity of doctrine depends on the precision with which it is stated. Hallucinations—the…...