Arts & Letters
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May Letters
Saving Some MoreUnlike the rest of us mortals, the always indispensable Avery Cardinal Dulles grows more indispensable…
Safekeeping
Each thing has its tangent Angel or ghost to keep it From the overwhelming host
Now
There is never an end to loss, or hope I give up the ghost for which I…
Manifesting Destiny
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815“1848 by Daniel Walker Howe Oxford University Press, 928…
The Sixties, Again and Again
Campaigning for the French presidency last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to…
Crazy for God
Someone must have arranged this. It’s as if Frank Schaeffer’s book Crazy for God was designed to…
The March Issue of First Things Is Here!
“A gift cannot so easily be severed from its giver,” writes Gilbert Meilaender, responding to the news…
Slavery, Christianity, and Islam
It has become a feature of today’s atheist chic to shy bricks at Christianity for its record…
The Wages of Advocacy
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality by Martha Nussbaum Basic Books, 320…
Catholic Scholars, Secular Schools
At Fordham University, while I was teaching there in the late 1960s, it was said that most…
The True Cost of Doing Something About Global Warming
According to a news story from Reuters , a recent Tufts University study (available here ) says…
The Pope Writes to Chinese Catholics; Stanley Fish’s Take on Richard Dawkins & Co.¯with Unhappy Consequences for Reason
Pope Benedict’s letter this past week to the Catholics of China is a development of potentially historic…
Keeping Marriage Public
Prof. Stephanie Coontz recently took to the pages of the New York Times to inform us that…
On Christian Hope
Pope Benedict XVI released his new encyclical letter, Spe Salvi (Saved by Hope), November 30, just two…
“Call Me Blessed”
The project known as Evangelicals and Catholics Together is now in its thirteenth year¯following its initial statement,…
