Catholicism
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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…
Maritain’s True Humanism
In the course of his long life, French philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) adopted a series of different…
The Bishops and Reform Delayed
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?Come to my arms, my beamish boy!O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”He chortled…
Just War, As It Was and Is
The just war tradition came into being during the Middle Ages as a way of thinking about…
The Vatican vs. “Americanism”
John Allen has written an exceedingly valuable book. It is titled All the Pope’s Men: The Inside…
The Love of Saint Thérèse
The Pope leaned toward her, so that “their faces nearly touched,” and Thérèse hurriedly whispered her desire…
While We’re At It
• When I spoke at ceremonies marking the inauguration of Robert Sloan as president of Baylor University…
Anti-Semitism and False Alarms
Although repercussions may extend far into the future, we can now get a measure of critical distance…
To Be American
It hardly seems like all of eight years ago that Samuel P. Huntington gave us The Clash…
Low Expectations and Catholic Preaching
Among all the qualities Protestants look for in their clergy, the one consistently rated highest is that…
