From the December issue: Looking back to my adolescence, I feel profound gratitude for an evangelical subculture that earnestly sought to offer my generation a vision of faithfulness amidst cultural upheaval.
Given their personal, professional, or family backgrounds in liberal politics, neoconservatives often saw paleoconservatives the same way liberals saw the right as a whole—as nativists, isolationists, racists, and anti-Semites.
A border that exists merely in theory is not an instrument of mercy. On the contrary, it generates the conditions that the bishops lament. It feeds not only social fragmentation but moral confusion.
We live in a culture that has largely come to resemble the pagan pluralism that surrounded the early Church, but our system of sacramental practice remains mostly that of Christendom. And it’s not working particularly well.
From the December issue: We should resist the notion that our adversaries are necessarily willful enemies of the West. Some are. But most are children of the sad history of the twentieth century, which we share.
