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Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine by garry wills penguin books, 152 pages, $19.95 Augustinophobia, the fear and loathing of Augustine, is a long-standing malady. The condition has never been confined only to the...
The Secularized Christian Academy
The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches By James Tunstead Burtchaell Eerdmans. 888 pp. $45 When I entered Bowdoin in the...
After Scholasticism
Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century By Philip Gleason Oxford University Press, 434 pages, $35 We Catholics are united in the faith, but infinitely disunited...
The Suicide State
The Roman Catholic Church called it a sin. The American Medical Association described it as unethical. C. Everett Koop, the former Surgeon General, said it was dangerous to society’s...
