Arts & Letters
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Common Sense For America
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Philip K.…
All Will Be Well
We watched the Italian tragedy unfold. Medical professionals worked heroically; many became ill and a few died.…
Communion for the Great Dismal Swamp
Is it a violence to take the knife to the loaf? This redemptionhas a split crust and…
The “Historic” Amazonian Synod, Revisited
Given that he was one of the principal planners and prominent leaders of last October’s special Synod…
Apostles Dead and Risen
Christian piety and art have often concentrated on the physical pain of Jesus’s torture, trial, and death.…
The Cross Stands Firm
On March 24, as the coronavirus pandemic ramped up, four Catholic priests in northeast Minneapolis gathered with…
Christ Crowned with Thorns
To really hear what I’m about to sayIs probably impossible apartFrom taking in the painting at its…
Easter Vigil
You’re rising somewhere in the April night Again, as ever with returning spring. Your tomb will be…
About a Garden I Once Knew in a Swamp
I could have listened to her read a phone book,numbers and letters formed in her mouthas if…
National Breakup?
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, F. H.…
Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 25
Wednesday. Coffee in bed as I read the morning paper. Reports: Local leaders in counties north of…
Europe’s Duty to Kill
Can you spare a minute for a story that doesn’t involve the coronavirus? Here’s hoping. I first…
Doubling Down On a Bad Deal
Perseverance on a difficult but noble path is a virtue. Stubbornness when confronted by irrefutable evidence of…
Darshan-abhilashi
How often when we are lostor in pain, we cry out to God— even if we don’t…
Mirror Work
The peak that paints the lakeIs quick to break. A height becomes a depth,A life a death.…
