Crisis Magazine

There are three ways of writing a book about the Catholic Literary Revival and the many literary converts who graced it. The first way of doing so is to write an historical narrative which shows the revival and the conversions as a cultural phenomenon unfolding through time. This was the approach that I chose to take with my book, Literary Converts, which begins with Oscar Wi...

Although the exact formulation escapes me, there is a line in an essay by Romano Guardini that I’ve never forgotten, in which he says that, at the end of the day, there can be no moral difference in the sight of God between the sin of Cain, who killed his brother, and the sin of Pilate, who failed to prevent the killing of his brother. The brother in question, of course, whom...

I was 21 years old and having a religious existential crisis. I’d become convinced of the evil of abortion and dedicated myself to the pro-life movement. But I had a problem: I was a United Methodist, and the United Methodist Church was “pro-choice.” Sure, it couched its support of abortion in Christian language, but ultimately this church I belonged to believed it was moral ...

Fr. James Martin, S.J., wants you to believe that homosexuals hear “relentless” thundering from the pulpit against homosexuality. And this relentless thundering keeps homosexuals away from the Church. In a recent interview with JD Flynn at The Pillar, Martin offers several anecdotes along these lines, that homosexuals hear relentless condemnation from the pulpit. Does this cl...

I’ve been involved in the pro-life movement since I was about 5 years old, when my parents took me to my first March for Life in Washington, D.C. Growing up, it wasn’t unusual to spend a Saturday morning praying for an end to abortion in front of an abortion clinic in my hometown, and we could always count on joining the Life Chain, where hundreds of people stood along a majo...