David Mills

Verses, that is. In Far As the Curse is Found , Abp Augustine DiNoia’s Christmas Eve homily we’re privileged to be able to post “On the Square,” he says that the verse of which this is the last phrase is “rarely sung.” It’s rarely sung in Catholic churches, . . . . Continue Reading »

Maybe we’re both just morbid, or feeling the pains of middle age, or for some other reason thinking gloomy thoughts about life on earth, but the “Catholic Sense” column I write for the Pittsburgh Catholic  and the editor’s OTS column The Christmas Conspiracy . . . . Continue Reading »

In his response to Ryan Anderson’s comments on marriage , David Blankenhorn explained: I changed my view on gay marriage for two reasons. The first is fairness. And the second is to get out of the very box that Ryan Anderson wants to put me and everyone else in — the little box inside of . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friends Alan Jacobs and David Goldman give their thoughts on  The Hobbit , a quick response to which I wrote on Saturday. Alan’s review is fairly critical. Reacting to all the action — what I called the “bang/pow/slash/crash/boom” stuff — he wrote: all I could . . . . Continue Reading »

A quick report for those interested. Our youngest really, really wanted to see  The Hobbit , so we went last night on the spur on the moment when I went online and found, a little to my surprise, that tickets were still available for the mid-evening showing at the theatre nearest us. I am not . . . . Continue Reading »

In the Catholic League’s latest press release, Bill Donohue argues that the major divinity schools are ignoring Christmas because they don’t have Christmas pictures on their websites and list few if any Christmas services on their calendars. He mentions Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Emory, . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers in the Colorado Springs area will want to know that the editor is speaking: This evening at Marian House, on “The Pious Mind.” The lecture starts at 7:30. Here’s the information . Tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at Colorado College, on “Against Critical Thinking.” . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friend and writer Maureen Mullarkey examines a new biographer of Cézanne who, “abandoning scholarly obligation to periods of taste different from his own . . . declares allegiance to the dashing Young Turks against the old duffers” and “gratifies the susceptibilities of . . . . Continue Reading »

In  Not Your Mother , the Catholic apologist Mark Shea examines, with a good bit of rhetorical flourish, the Irish novelist Colm Tóibín’s inevitably praised (see  Edmund White’s review in the Irish Times and the review in the  Guardian )  The . . . . Continue Reading »

Having mentioned James Kalb in the item below , I thought I’d post the “Briefly Noted” review of his book we published in the June/July 2009 issue. It was written by then-Junior Fellow Stefan McDaniel. I commend the book, as he does, though I would have used “should” . . . . Continue Reading »