“ For American Catholics, a millennium that John Paul II had hailed as a new springtime for Christianity began instead with a wave of revelations about priestly sex abuse. There had been intimations of… Ross Douthat
“ Nothing prepared Catholic America for the flood of 2003, which began in New England but ultimately left no diocese or community untouched, reaching even to the doors of the Vatican itself. Horror upon… Ross Douthat
“ The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. Ross Douthat
“ Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé. Ross Douthat
“ In this America, too, the Christian teaching that every human soul is unique and precious has been stressed, by the prophets of self-fulfillment and gurus of self-love, at the expense of the equally i… Ross Douthat
