The Church and the experts
I have a new column up at Catholic World Report about the troubled relation between the Church and those who define reality in the secular world, and what to do about it.
James Kalb
My new book gets reviewed
I get my first review, at Catholic World Report, from someone other than an individual blogger. The review, by Jerry Salyer, starts off with an interesting quote from an instruction on liberation theology by then-Cardinal Ratzinger.
Review of Garry Wills’ Why Priests?
The following review of Garry’s Will’s Why Priests? appeared in the June 2013 Chronicles:
… More ...Garry Wills identifies himself as a Christian. He says he accepts the creeds, along with prayer, divine providence, the Gospels, the Eucharist, and the Mystical Body of Christ as the body of all believers. He thinks it a bad thing
Where is all this leading?
My latest at Catholic World Report suggests that secular liberalism won’t have the staying power effectually to suppress Catholicism.
The darkness gathers
I have another piece on the Windsor decision, this one at Crisis Magazine. It deals with the increasing radicalism, mindlessness, and intolerance of mainstream progressive thought.
Windsor, inclusiveness, and the churches
Here, in an unpublished essay, I discuss the Windsor case, what it shows about our current situation, and how the Churches should respond.
Windsor, Inclusiveness, and the Churches
by James Kalb
In United States v. Windsor, the case that invalidated the Federal definition of marriage as the marriage of man and woman, the Supreme … More ...
Out of the antiworld
Here’s an essay from the current issue of Modern Age. It gives an architectonic account of all possible political positions in present-day America that explains the necessity and awkward status of social conservatism. The piece started out as a lecture I gave a couple of years ago at a Catholic conference and then shortened … More ...
Is inclusiveness evil?
That’s the title given to a a piece I wrote for Intercollegiate Review. It basically says that the Windsor case (invalidating the federal definition of marriage as natural marriage) means everyone should read my new book Against Inclusiveness, and includes a thumbnail sketch of the book’s argument and how it applies to churches.
Religion, liberalism, and worldly success
My latest column is now up at Catholic World Report. Basically it presents a standard cyclical view of one aspect of history: a society with a good religion will become successful, which makes the religion lose its hold, which means the society will stop being successful.