Whether the sealing off is socialist or populist, secular-humanist or Catholic, it still yields stagnation and decline, empty cradles and emptying provinces, at best a cozy form of anomie and at ...

My own view, elaborated in an essay for First Things in 2022 on the revival of Catholic integralism, was that part of this insight was correct. There is no such thing as a purely liberal society ...

Tough guy Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Catholic priest Jerry Connolly (Pat O’Brien) were boyhood friends who took different paths. Sullivan becomes the idol of a group of boys whom Connolly ...