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What Jesus Really Said About Sins of the Flesh

by Anthony Esolen

I have often heard it said that our Lord did not care overmuch about sins of the flesh; for He was relentless in his attacks upon hypocrisy, pride, and avarice, but was so mild towards adulterers and fornicators that we…

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How the West Really Lost God

A few weeks ago Mitt Romney spoke at a college commencement exercise and encouraged the graduates to marry early and have a lot of children. He used the words “quiver full” taken from the Old Testament. The comment was unremarkable,…

Why We are Losing the Gay “Marriage” Debate (and How We Can Start Winning)

by John Jalsevac

Gay activists tell us that “gay marriage is inevitable.” It’s a taunt devised to pick off the more faint-hearted clingers-on of traditional marriage by exploiting the human instinct to be on the winning side. And all too often, it works….

On State Culpability for Social Problems

by Anthony Esolen

In Philadelphia, about half of all students in ninth grade will graduate from high school. The dropout rate is especially high among black and Hispanic boys. President Obama’s answer to this problem is typical of the left: compulsion. Make dropping…

G. K. Chesterton: It’s Not Gay, and It’s Not Marriage

by Dale Ahlquist

One of the pressing issues of Chesterton’s time was “birth control.” He not only objected to the idea, he objected to the very term because it meant the opposite of what it said. It meant no birth and no control….

Why Marriage Matters

by Regis Martin

It was, not so very long ago, widely regarded in this country as morally wrong and, not infrequently, socially ruinous, for a man to walk out on his wife and children. In 1961, for example, Nelson Rockefeller, who was then…

The Causes of Violence in America

by Stephen M. Krason

The airwaves and the opinion columns continue to discuss the terrible December 14 school massacre in Connecticut and have brought us additional stories of senseless multiple murders in places like Oregon and western New York. Much of the discussion is…

The Sexual Revolution and its Victims

by Anthony Esolen

What strikes me most powerfully about the defenders of the sexual revolution is their immovable abstraction. Always the matter is couched in terms of rights, or individual desires—what I want, what I may pursue. That this sexual laissez-faire destroys the…

Marriage’s Vanishing Act

by Russell Shaw

Is it possible that secular liberals, some of them anyway, are starting to realize that knocking the supports out from under traditional marriage may not be such a great idea? If so, and if their next step is to think…

What Lies Beneath

by Danielle Bean

My husband and I are madly in love. I feel the need to announce this publicly because, on the surface, it can be hard to tell sometimes. Some days, the most romantic thing Dan and I do is grunt at…

Surrendering Marriage

June is a good month for surrenders. On June 25, 1940, France capitulated after Germany’s lightning defeat of Allied armies. The armistice that took effect that day ceded more than half the country to foreign occupation, and relegated the rest to…

Marriage Is Heading off a Cliff

by Linda Chavez

For the first time in history, less than half of Americans now live in married-couple households. The new finding by the Census Bureau reflects the most profound change in the nature of American society ever to have occurred, yet practically…

Twenty and Engaged

by Elizabeth Hanna

With my 21st birthday just a few weeks away, it is expected that I plan a blowout party with copious amounts of alcohol, as my friends compile a list of 21 dares for me to complete while downtown — you…

Clearing the Record on the Infamous ‘Hospital Visit’

by Jackie Gingrich Cushman

My father, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, has been in politics as long as I can remember. And as long as I can remember, media coverage about him has contained misstatements of facts. The vast majority are simple…

Time for married priests?

by Simcha Fisher

Why doesn’t the Latin Rite Church just start ordaining married men again? If men can’t or won’t stay celibate, then why force the issue? Well, I peeked into the future, when married priests are commonplace, and this is what I…

To Love, Honor, and Betray

by Jennifer Roche

The New York Times‘ “Vows” section is usually the lightest part of the paper. The charming love stories, photos of beautiful gowns, and glimpses into happy celebrations never fail to lift the reader’s spirits. So it was with some surprise…

Friday Free-for-All: October 8

by Margaret Cabaniss

Time for some Friday morning links: A woman has been arrested in Colorado for attacking a blasphemous piece of art with a crowbar, saying that it “desecrate[d] my lord.” The artist responded to the attack by saying, “I don’t expect…

Archbishop Nienstedt Denies Communion to Gay Activists

by Deal W. Hudson

The bishops really don’t want to deny communion to anyone unless they believe it’s absolutely necessary. Archbishop John Nienstedt (Minneapolis-St. Paul), however, denied communion to 25 students and members of the St. John’s Abbey community in Collegeville, MN. They were…

“Divorce is the scandal of the evangelical conscience.”

by Brian Saint-Paul

Albert Mohler, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote a remarkable blog post criticizing Evangelicalism for its acceptance of divorce: When the Christian right was organized in the 1970s and galvanized in the 1980s, the issues of abortion…

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