Ireland is a small country on the other side of the ocean, and of no great interest to most Americans. But a recent “Letter from Dublin” published in The New Yorker (April 3, 1995) may be of interest, not for what it tells us about Ireland, but about the liberal agenda, which is much the … Read more
This past Christmas, I was struck by a meaning that had not occurred to me before in the antiphon, “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.” Every Christmas is a celebration of the great central doctrine of our faith, that God took on Himself our human nature and became a … Read more
Religious freedom in the United States is popularly supposed to be guaranteed by the separation of church and state. In fact, the phrase “separation of church and state” appears nowhere in the Constitution of the United States (it is a private observation from the later correspondence of Jefferson). But it is useful for pointing to … Read more