David Mills

Some of you may read this while watching the presidential debate and otherwise multitasking your way through the competing interests of the evening. Stop it, Fr. David Ousley would tell you. The whole idea of multitasking as something good is based on the assumption that life is about getting . . . . Continue Reading »

Late notice, but New York area readers may be interested to know about a conference titled “Why morality-free economic theory does not work” and offering a “natural law perspective” on the subject. The main speaker is Italian economist Luigno Bruni, author of the recent . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friend, writer, and advisory council member Timothy George is representing the world’s Baptists at the Synod of Bishops now meeting for two weeks in Rome. The title of the Synod is the New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith, and Timothy was invited for obvious . . . . Continue Reading »

My friend Mark Barrett sends the link to  Goodbye to Glocamorra , 1968 documentary from Irish television on the Irish neighborhood of Inwood, on the north end of Manhattan. (Mark has the rare pleasure of seeing his father as a young man. He appears about nine minutes in, riding around the . . . . Continue Reading »

My friend Mark Barrett sends this item from New York magazine, titled “Either the Post  needs a copy editor or the Yankees plan to make baseball and metaphysical history tonight” for this front page: . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friends at the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project have announced a prepublication offer for the special spring 2013 issue of  Quaestiones Disputatae dedicated to von Hildebrand’s work. This issue of  Quaestiones Disputatae , the philosophical journal of Franciscan . . . . Continue Reading »

A note from a friend led me to an article by the late Eugene Genovese, published in Dissent in 1994 and famous in leftist circles (judging from some of the articles published after his death) if forgotten by nearly everyone else. Described by the editors as “an open letter to the . . . . Continue Reading »

It is, writes Julianne Wiley, “a good example of the usefulness of academics in the production and distribution of moral equivocation” in her amazon.com review of Voting and Holiness . (It’s now the third on the list.) The book is a collection of essays by Catholic heavy-hitters, . . . . Continue Reading »

We all have a romantic image of monks patiently copying texts in their scriptoria, with the more artistic illuminating the manuscripts. But really, it must have been very tedious work, and it’s no surprise that monks wrote comments in the margins. They complain, of course (“It is very cold” . . . . Continue Reading »

“As the French playwright Jean Anouilh said, ‘Beauty is one of the few things in the world that do not lead to doubt about God’,” says Fr. Peter Cameron, O.P., interviewed by Our Sunday Visitor . “The Church intuits that immediately. When we’re in the . . . . Continue Reading »