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By the Bowels of Christ
From a letter from W. H. Auden chastising his pastor at St. Marks in the Bowery for changes to the liturgy: Our Church has had the singular good-fortune of...
Where the Girls Are
was the title of a slim volume published by the Daily Princetonian in 1965. The guide provided phone numbers, campus rules and curfews, and directions to seventeen women’s colleges...
Happy Birthday to our Mutual Friend
“To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock...
PSA for Percy Fans
You might remember that in February we published an interview with Win Riley , the director of the forthcoming Walker Percy: A Documentary Film . Well, the forthcoming has...
Malta’s Folly
Over Memorial Day weekend, 72 percent of the Maltese electorate”about the same number of Maltese who go to mass each Sunday”went to the polls to vote on a referendum...
Quotas, the Holy Spirit, and the ELCA
What went wrong with the ELCA? Russ Saltzman asks today in his On the Square column . Membership in the denomination that was supposed to unite two-thirds of American...
The Confessions of Russ Saltzman
This morning On the Square , Russ Saltzman writes his abbreviated Confessions, recounting how he stumbled into faith without ever “getting” religion: Far from being a “religious” person, I...
A Review of Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park by Joyce Kerr Tarpley Catholic University of America,n288 pages, $69.95 n “Nobody has ever found it possible to like the...
Seeking the Good Caliphate
Al-Jumuah is my favorite Islamic magazine. There are several publications geared to Arab-American concerns, but like many publications with an immigrant readership they seem bent on showing how successful...
The Bishop of London’s Sermon
I promise I have not spent my entire day slavishly following the royal wedding. But a friend sent along the text of the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres’ wedding...
Playing House
Thirty years ago, as her wedding day approached, Princess Diana’s uncle tastelessly reassured the curious press that she was in fact a “bona fide” virgin. Today, on her son’s...
The Problem of Weevils
This morning On the Square , Russ Saltzman ponders the intricacies of a Eucharistic faith: Then there are questions bothering me yet about elements that are inadvertently added to the...
Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted
In our second On the Square essay today, Wesley J. Smith tells the story of Fr. George Calciu, a Romanian Orthodox priest imprisoned and tortured for his faith: George...
How to Preach the Resurrection
This morning On the Square Russ Saltzman teaches preachers how to preach the Resurrection: Here is what I do need to hear. Before you preach Christ raised make sure...
Thank God
In our second On the Square piece today, Alma Acevedo asks: To whom is Richard Dawkins grateful when he expresses “an abstract gratitude that I am alive to appreciate...
