Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The View from Here Is Glory
This Our Exile by joshua hren angelico press, 142 pages, $18 What is “Catholic fiction”? Must it…
The Impermanence of Place
When I was young, I had a recurring dream. I’d be walking home from grade school—it was…
Versions of Paul
The mostly Baptist congregations in which I grew up included only a handful of academically trained biblical…
The Cosmic Gamemaker
Integrating God+Love+Lawby luis tellezwitherspoon, 80 pages, $12 In Integrating God+Love+Law, Luis Tellez urges readers, especially his target…
The Cloud of Unknowing
Despite the doubt and forked ambivalence,Approach, avoid, ignore, yet hope to shareIn some impossible benevolence,To care and…
The Way Of Love
Don’t be afraid; and never yield to hate,whilst knowing love, appearing so pristine,contrasted to a thing as…
In For the Long Haul
I’m writing from San Antonio, Texas, where Wendy and I are visiting our daughter Mary, our son-in-law…
A Touching and Feeling Faith
Everything Happens for a Reason:And Other Lies I’ve Lovedby kate bowlerrandom house, 208 pages, $26 If the…
Rebuild Christchurch Basilica
In February 2011, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and damaging dozens of…
Air Turbulence and the Resurrection
If there’s anything Catholics in the United States should have learned over the past two decades, it’s…
Snowdrops
I planted snowdrops forty years agoWhen I was fourteen; early March they driftAcross the garden, poking through…
Life of the Artist
It’s said that Caravaggio was a creep,A pedophile to be precise, the kindWho lurked near schoolyards, and…
Letters
Pio’s No-No? My Jewish children are proud Americans born and raised in New York. When they were…
We Renounce the Old World
What They Saw in Americajames l. nolan, jr.cambridge university press, 2016, 299 pages I was twenty and…
Ecumenical Incorrectness
Roman but Not Catholic: What Remains at Stake 500 Years after the Reformation by kenneth j. collins…
