Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Converts and the Symphony of Truth
Why do adults become Catholics? There are as many reasons for “converting” as there are converts. Evelyn…
The Desert’s Austere Grace
It is not the kind of road you ever want to find yourself driving on in a…
Books for Christmas
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…
A Pious Scholar
“I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance…
The Fast and Slow Growth
Having made my first promises in 2002 (after three years of dallying), next year I will celebrate…
Whooshing Through Life
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by hubert dreyfus…
While We’re At It
• Remember the alliance of atheists who offered to take care of your pets in the event…
A Tribute to Cardinal John O’Connor (1920–2000)
Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Cardinal John O’Connor, whom Richard John Neuhaus called…
Advent and the Pregnancy Narratives—a Season of Joyful Expectation
I fear I may have missed some of the beauty of Advent. I missed the lessons from…
There’s Something About Bloody Mary
Mary I, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon’s only surviving child, was the first Queen Regnant of…
Reformation Day
It was around two o’clock in the afternoon on the eve of the Day of All Saints,…
The Book of Judges
Law and Judicial Duty by Philip Hamburger Harvard, 686 pages, $49.95 Recent events have brought the ordinarily…
An Execration for an Unfaithful Husband
O may the girlfriend of your nightmares stalk you on the Internet, and “need to talk,” and…
Charity and Unity
When the pope’s new encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, appeared this summer, its ambitious scope and curious composition left…
Empathy & Apathy
During the presidential campaign Barack Obama declared, with no inadvertence, that among the furnishings of mind he…
