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Immortal Diamond

Edmund Waldstein

Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses by erik varden bloomsbury, 176 pages, $22 In March 2022, the Nordic Bishops’ Conference sent an open letter to the president of the German...

All We Need Is Everything

Edmund Waldstein

Edmund Waldstein responds to Ross Douthat’s article “A Gentler Christendom.” Ross Douthat replies to Edmund Waldstein in, “The Shadow of Failure.” In November 1945, Jacques Maritain wrote a letter...

An Integralist Manifesto

Edmund Waldstein

Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IXby andrew willard jonesemmaus academic, 510 pages, $39.95 I f there is a...

The Left Bank of the Rhine

Edmund Waldstein

Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, who passed away on Friday, cultivated an air of provincial, down-to-earth ordinariness, often saying that he had wanted to be a farmer. But in...