Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Saint-Séverin, II
With Notre-Dame, the Sacré-Coeur, and all the rest, obscure or famous”Trinity, Saint-Julian-the-Poor, Saint-Roch, Saint-Paul” it’s just another…
Ad Orientem
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by judith herrin princeton university press, 440 pages, $29.95…
Backyard Triumph
Truant from April chores I daydream in a chair beneath a tree that scatters its petals when…
June/July Letters
Wrights and WrongsI know the comments in the April 2008 issue weren’t a review of my recent…
Animal Psalms
The Skunk (Psalm 23) I am anointed too, brushed with his broad mark. He leads me safely…
Scandal and Canon Law
Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops’ Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children by Nicholas P. Cafardi Paulist,…
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…
