David Mills

Today in “On the Square,” Joseph Bottum describes what would have been for some others a misspent weekend, spent watching the old televisions how What’s My Line? on Youtube. And in Lining Culture finds that what “the weird, silly, self-important old show did have, that would . . . . Continue Reading »

While I’m mentioning conferences you may want to attend, here are two more. First, Robert George, a member of our editorial board, will be giving the Archbishop Gerety Lecture at Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University. He will be speaking on “Natural Law, God, and Human . . . . Continue Reading »

A conference that looks like great fun: Dancing with Death: Warfare, Wounds and Disease in the Middle Ages . It is being held October 20th to 22nd at the California University of Pennsylvania, northeast of Pittsburgh, is free, and is not only open to the public but aimed at a general audience, and . . . . Continue Reading »

On this 9/11, a moving essay by one who was there:  Ground Zero: A Journal , by Father Vincent Druding, which originally appeared in the December 2001 issue. . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s second “On the Square” article, art historian Matthew Milliner reflects on whether art made for use in worship should hang in museums at all, as a Vatican scholar has suggested moving Raphael’s painting of the Transfiguration out of the Vatican’s own museum . . . . Continue Reading »

As some readers will know, for much of the day yesterday the home page loaded very slowly, if at all (in web terms, which means far more slowly than anyone’s going to wait for). Many readers had heard about but could not access Stephen Barr’s Much Ado About Nothing , a response to . . . . Continue Reading »

Some people, a friend observed, remarking on the way some Christians think  Christopher Hitchens’ illness will bring him to Christianity, ”expect severe illness — or any other adversity, for that matter — somehow  to work a radical change in . . . . Continue Reading »

Today in “On the Square” we offer two articles, R. R. Reno’s regular column and physicist and editorial board member Stephen M. Barr’s response to Stephen Hawking’s belief that the universe could come into being without God. In Progressive Catholicism’s . . . . Continue Reading »

A friend sends this quote from Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange , O.P.: The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle because they do not believe; they are intolerant in practice . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s second “On the Square” article, Catholic Persecution, Muslim Acceptance , Georgetown’s Chester Gillis tells the story of the prejudice Catholics suffered in America from the early settlements till at least World War II, as a cautionary tale about prejudice against . . . . Continue Reading »