Catholicism
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The Writing Life
It is the rare reader of fiction who does not at some time or other consider becoming…
RJN 1.9.06 Elizabeth Bumiller
Elizabeth Bumiller, in the February 6 issue of the New York Times , reports on a speech…
From Ratzinger to Benedict
Like his predecessor John Paul II, Benedict XVI was present at all four sessions of the Second…
The Miracle of Evolution
There are two fundamentally different battles raging in the current debates about evolution. The first pits nearly…
Requiem for a Parish
It was built by Polish immigrants—workers in the steel mill and the glass factory that sat along…
Protestant-Catholic-Jew, Then and Now
In the winter of 1954, Will Herberg, the best untrained sociologist in America, turned his attention to…
SB: 12.23.05 One often hears…
One often hears it said that modern science has adopted a methodology that takes no account of…
RJN: 11.24.05 Thanksgiving Day…
Thanksgiving Day. The little community of which I’m part doesn’t have a Thanksgiving dinner. We disperse to…
RJN: 11.23.05 “In Strong Terms…
“In Strong Terms, Rome Is to Ban Gays as Priests.” That’s the front page headline in today’s…
JB: 11.09.05 You gotta love…
You gotta love this kind of stuff , Representative Sherrod Brown writing to Senator Mike DeWine last…
Why Democracy Is Not the Answer
Whenever I hear about a “liberal-conservative standoff,” I feel the impulse, conciliatory soul that I am, to…
John Keegan, the eminent
John Keegan, the eminent historian of warfare, writes that the trial of Saddam Hussein poses difficult questions…
The Bishops in Council
Twenty-five years ago this month, Pope John Paul II made his first pastoral visit to the United…
Christ and Casserole
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 247 pp. $23. Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, published in 1981,…
Chaplain of Shadows
Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz Translated by the author and Robert Hass Ecco. 102 pp. $23.95 Second…
