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Fr. Gavancho’s Fate

Mark C. Henrie

In July, a new associate pastor arrived at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in downtown Santa Barbara, a routine occurrence in the life of any Catholic parish throughout the...

War Without End

Mark C. Henrie

Paul Miller’s essay is a plea for Americans to persevere in a military undertaking in Afghanistan that began in 2001. I might be moved by an argument that appealed...

Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom

Mark C. Henrie

Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court:  The Cases that Define the Debate over Church and State terry eastland  november 1995, eerdmans, $31.50 For all their concern about the rise...

Anti-Antiliberalism

Mark C. Henrie

The Anatomy of Antiliberalism by stephen holmes  harvard university press, 330 pages, $29.95 As the 1990s bring us the recrudescence of many unfulfilled progressive enthusiasms from the 1970s, we...

Was Burke a Conservative?

Mark C. Henrie

The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke by conor cruise o’brien university of chicago press, 602 pages, $34.95 At the corner of Massachusetts Avenue...

The Problem of Power

Mark C. Henrie

The Nature of Politics: Selected Essays of Bertrand de Jouvenel edited by dennis hale and marc landy transaction, 306 pages, $21.95 The only thing deader than dead politics must...

Divorce, Communitarian Style

Mark C. Henrie

On Divorce by louis de bonald translated and with an introduction by nicholas davidson transaction press, 198 pages, $27.95 Especially in America, when we think of the Catholic intellectual...