The Man Who Could Not Read
From the Parthenon to Bach's autographs, Durham's vaults to the Moon landing: what the West has made, and why it burns so easily. After Mosul's museum, Palmyra and 47 French libraries struck in 2023, Fr. Lewis asks what happens when migration outpaces inheritance and doctrine meets the mob, and finds the deepest danger is a West that no longer teaches its own children to read.
THE SWORD AND THE STRANGER
Popular argument on this question, from both directions, tends to treat the Gospels as though they were a manual of border statute waiting to be applied. They are not, and a piece that pretends otherwise earns nothing but the reader's justified suspicion. But refusing that error is not the same as refusing the question. Scripture, read across its full canon and its subsequent theological elaboration, does make two distinct and authentically weighty claims that bear on the matter of illegal immigration — one concerning the competence of civil authority, the other concerning the personal duty owed to the stranger.
