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The Future of Catholic Theology ([link removed])

by Thomas Joseph White

From the August/September issue: With the knowledge of the Trinity we know ourselves and our nature most fully. Without it, we become opaque to ourselves. The Trinity and the Incarnation provide us with an ultimate explanation of the world.
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Islamists and the Tragedy of Holy Family Church ([link removed])

by Andrew Doran

The Church should tread carefully, both for the sake of imperiled Christians and for the West. Of course we have compassion for those suffering. But strong moral sentiments, imperfectly informed and manipulated, may lead to worse suffering—not merely for Christians but for Muslims and Jews.
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Goodbye, Saffron ([link removed])

by Valerie Stivers

From the August/September issue: Saffron illustrates our former reliance on herbs for health and healing. Today saffron is primarily a niche and exotic seasoning, but in the Middle Ages, it grew in fields and gardens all over Britain and Ireland. It was used in “simples,” remedies known to most housewives.
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The Best of Us Is Medieval ([link removed])

by John Duggan

Psychological traits prized in the West—trust and cooperation among strangers, for instance, or the capacity to resist pressure to conform—could be traced to the length of exposure to the medieval Western Church. The reason? The Church’s ban on cousin marriage.
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Ecumenical Fear and Loathing ([link removed])

by Alec Ryrie

From the August/September issue: The conventional version of the rise of ecumenism holds that nothing heals a quarrel better than a common enemy. In the modern age, Protestants and Catholics discovered that they hated and feared secularism, and in particular communism, more than they hated and feared each other.
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