Trump victory signals new hope of coalition building for Catholics November 13, 2024By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary While economics largely drove the result of this election, we Catholics understand that many cultural and social issues are far more important than decreasing interest rates and controlling inflation.
‘There Are Two’: Pope Gelasius and Jefferson’s ‘Wall of Separation’ October 5, 2024By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Commentary We must reject the “wall of separation” as the formula for religious repression that it is.
75 years after George Orwell’s ‘1984,’ we are awash in Newspeak and Doublethink August 6, 2024By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life Seventy-five years after its publication, and 40 years after its historical setting, 1984 has never been more accurate in its description of the increasing dystopia of American public life.
Simone Weil on obligations, rights and the need for roots after 75 years June 5, 2024By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Commentary This theory of individual rights is not merely incompatible with the Christian doctrines of solidarity and common good, but contradictory to them.
Self-deception, pride and the Willy Loman in all of us February 2, 2024By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Commentary “Death of a Salesman” has much to say to us Christians as we navigate the highways and backroads of our own moral lives.
Why the Magnificat is the perfect prayer in Advent December 14, 2023By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Commentary The Magnificat is among the most theologically powerful speeches in the entirety of the New Testament.
‘You kill your crickets, eh?’ Discovering Dickens’ other Christmas tale December 7, 2023By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Books, Commentary “The Christmas Carol” is only the most prominent of Dickens’s several Christmas stories, my favorite of which is “The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home,” published on Dec. 20, 1845.
The Didache: An ancient catechism, a contemporary message November 4, 2023By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Commentary The Didache not only provides a fascinating glimpse of the liturgical and moral life of the early church, but also offers relevant guidance for every age, including our own.
Defending Henry VIII: Thomas More did it 500 years ago, against Martin Luther June 5, 2023By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News June 2023 marks the 500th anniversary of one of the most cruelly ironic publications in the history of the Catholic Church, St. Thomas More’s “Response to Luther.”
Force and suffering: Suggestions for Lenten reading February 13, 2023By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent The road to joy may be the path of suffering. Endo’s “Silence” is a brilliant account of that paradox, and perfect Lenten reading.
