Nicholas Frankovich
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Prayers for Benedict XVI, Who Is ‘Very Ill’
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is ‘very ill,’ Pope Francis and the Vatican report. → Read More
Why Is Naming Sports Teams after Europeans Any Better?
Our great-grandchildren are liable to recognize our chauvinism and wonder. → Read More
The New York Review Bobbles Its Cruz–Trump History
In an article on Republicans, The New York Review fails to correct an author who implies that Ted Cruz endorsed Donald Trump at the 2016 national convention. → Read More
Poland Is Better Than Its Current Ruling Party
The Law and Justice party in Poland borrows tactics that once helped repressive regimes in Europe hold on to power. → Read More
A Species of Baseball
The designated-hitter rule exists because MLB officials think we’re more interested in spectacle than in baseball. → Read More
Sweden’s COVID-19 Fatality Rate Is High
Arguments for lifting any given lockdown can be made. Sweden’s experience with the coronavirus, however, no longer clearly supports them. → Read More
In Defense of The Seventh Seal
The flicker of Antonius Block’s eyeballs in The Seventh Seal now and then in the final chess-game scene is our cue to look again. → Read More
Going to Mass Online Makes One Mindful
If it jolts us from an overindulgence of our habit of mental absence during worship, good. → Read More
Pro-Life, or Not, in a Pandemic
Pressed between an economic and a medical crisis, some of those on opposite sides of the abortion debate start to sound like they’ve traded scripts. → Read More
Democrats in South Florida Know Castro Better Than Bernie Sanders Does
Socialism is a hard sell in America. Making excuses for a Communist dictator is a nonstarter in Florida. → Read More
Pope Francis and Catholicism beyond Left and Right
To understand Pope Francis, begin with the observation that he has been shaped by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. → Read More
The Eternal Debate over the Nature of Hell
A review of That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation, by David Bentley Hart. → Read More
‘Me Too,’ the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandals, and a Double Standard
Indignant at Church corruption? And don’t want Blackstone’s ratio to apply in clergy sex-abuse cases? Say so. Be honest. → Read More
Pete Buttigieg Repeats the Aborton Clichés. Here’s What Democrats Could Say
For a model on abortion, a Democrat running for president could do worse than reread Christopher Hitchens. → Read More
Good Friday Comes Early This Year for Notre-Dame
The loss is incalculable. So is the reason for hope that it will always point to. → Read More
The Atlantic’s Commentary on Pope Benedict’s Letter Is Not Its Best Work
Pope Benedict publishes a letter, and The Atlantic publishes Rachel Donadio’s commentary on it. She’s done better work. → Read More
Bad Theology, Bad Atheism
Peter Atterton in the New York Times rehearses the case against a conventional but insufficient understanding of God. → Read More
Media Scripts about Catholic Bishops and Clergy Sex Abuse Are Bad Cartoons
Read it again: The Pennsylvania grand-jury report belies conventional wisdom about Catholic bishops and clergy sex abuse. → Read More
‘Semblance of Truth,’ the Church’s Standard of Evidence in Sex-Abuse Cases
Today, Catholic bishops, laypeople, and the general public are more inclined to believe the testimony of someone who says he was sexually abused by a priest. → Read More
National Review Gives Tradition Its Due
Contribute to our Fall 2018 Webathon and help keep the flame alive. → Read More