Readers’ Choice

Sen. Durbin Is Unfit to Receive Any Catholic Honor

THOMAS J. PAPROCKI

I offer this fraternal correction in the hope that Cardinal Cupich might reverse this erroneous decision, and so preserve the integrity of the Church’s moral teaching and avoid the scandal that this decision will otherwise cause to the faithful.

Politics for Losers

BRAD EAST

From the October issue: Once upon a time I was a precocious Christian teenager reading Bonhoeffer and Hauerwas, listening to Rage Against the Machine, and proclaiming to friends and family the madness of the Iraq War. Phil Christman’s new book would have proved irresistible.

A Time for Hatred?

PETER J. LEITHART

God hates, but he isn’t hate. God is love, and his hatred expresses the love he is. His wrath breaks out against rebels to guard and avenge the holiness of his own name, and his fire consumes enemies to protect and restore his people and his world.

The Summer of Our Discontent

RHYS LAVERTY

It has been a summer of demonstrations, riots, and flag raising, all capped off by the huge Unite the Kingdom rally in London in early September. Police estimates say around 150,000 people attended. Organizers claim an outlandish 3 million.

Protestants Against the Pill

KATELYN WALLS SHELTON

From the October issue: Martin Luther and John Calvin regarded contraceptive sexual acts as a grave moral sin; this was the universal Christian position until the 1930 Lambeth Conference, at which Anglican leaders gave their official opinion that contraception was not in all cases sinful.