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Ratzinger After Vatican II
Benedict XVI: A Life, Volume 2:Professor and Prefect to Pope and Pope Emeritus: 1965—The Presentby peter seewaldignatius press, 576 pages, $35 A shy, intensely Catholic, cats- and music-loving Bavarian boy...
Anti-Christianity in France
On the day after François Fillon’s victory in the Republican primary in France last November, the leftist daily Libération’s headline was: “Help, Jesus is coming back!” The reason for...
“Je Suis Jacques Hamel”
What has just happened at Saint-Étienne du Rouvray can only arouse horror and even anger at a hatred which is as cruelly cowardly as it is stupidly suicidal. After...
Dhimmitude Deferred
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe by Christopher Caldwell Doubleday, 432 pages, $30 The title of Christopher Caldwell’s recent book may raise a polite eyebrow in Europe. A revolution,...
Letter from Paris
As could have been anticipated, the Declaration of Repentance issued by French bishops last fall concerning the silence and passivity of the Church in the face of the Holocaust...
