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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 Bishopsโ€™ 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 โ€œA Gentler Christendom.โ€ Ross Douthat replies to Edmund Waldstein in, โ€œThe Shadow of Failure.โ€ 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...