Editors

Small is Bountiful
Tim Wu, The New Yorker

How I Pray: Sr. Mary Catharine Perry, O.P.
Thomas L. McDonald, Patheos

3 Types of Fundamentalists and Evangelicals After 1956
Justin Taylor, The Gospel Coalition

How a Year in Auschwitz Helped Me Grow
Emily Herlyn, The Jewish Daily

New York A Mess of Help January 24 The Olmsted Salon, a ministry of Calvary/St. John’s Church which seeks to integrate faith and culture, is hosting author David Zahl for a book event. Constructed like an album, Zhal’s new book “A Mess of Help” surveys some of . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ve just finished this beautiful little book, The Mother of the Little Flower: Zelie Martin, written by Céline Martin (Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face), the sister of Thérèse of Lisieux. Though quite short, this biography gives a full portrait of an exceptional woman whose greatest desire was to glorify God, even in times extreme suffering. It includes personal anecdotes of her charity and devotion and also supplies excerpts from her letters, in which she never fails to express her gratitude for and trust in God’s unfailing love. Yesterday I began reading Jacques Philippe’s The Way of Trust and Love, which is based on a retreat he gave on Thérèse of Lisieux. He closely examines her writings, explaining her “completely new little way” of spirituality and how one can apply it everyday life. Philippe recommends reading the book “one chapter a day and then taking time to meditate on it, re-reading the quotations in the context of your personal prayer, and asking yourself what light they throw on your own life, what invitations our Lord is making to you through them.” Continue Reading »

Catholic Identity and the Core Curriculum at Notre Dame
Charlotte Hayes, National Catholic Register

The Definition of a Dictionary
Stefan Fatsis, Slate

Love as Passion—and Virtue
Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

Book Review: Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier
Eric Wills, The Washington Post

St. John Cassian and the Spirituality of St. Dominic
Br. Nicholas Schneider, O.P. Dominicana

To Fall Out of Love, Do This
Susanna Wolf, The New Yorker

Punjabi Folksongs
anon, Modern Poetry in Translation

To the Office, with Love
Jennifer Senior, New York Magazine

Imperfect Tenderness
Tim Hodler, The Comics Journal

Tinnitus: January, thin rain becoming ice
David Harsent, The Guardian

Orality, Literacy, and the Memorized Poem
Mike Chasar, Poetry Magazine

Making Christianity Weird Again
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative

The Quest for Moral Adulthood
Adam Gurri, Front Porch Republic

After Charlie Hebdo, Could European Churches Be Next?
Philip Jenkins, Aleteia

Nigerian Archbishop: ‘West is ignoring Boko Haram violence’
Staff reporter, Catholic Herald

Truth for Truth’s Sake
Br. Constantius Sanders, O.P., Dominicana

Marketing Motherhood
Elizabeth Bruening, America

Eating Alone in China
Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker

Paul Cézanne Revered the Old Masters, yet Influenced Waves of Modernists
Nancy Locke, Humanities

Among the Disrupted
Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times

Metastasis
David Baker, The Poetry Foundation

No, the Internet is Not Killing Culture
Evan Kindley, Slate

Americans Go Online for Art, Skip Museums, Theater
Edward Ortiz, The Sacramento Bee

On the Strange Squid Near at Hand
Bernardo Aparicio Garcia, Dappled Things