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A selection of recent articles on this topic
The “American” Religion
The great contest is over the culture, the guiding ideas and habits of mind and heart that…
Documentation: A Reply to Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion , by the atheist writer Richard Dawkins, is remarkable in the first place for…
Reconciling East and West
It is no secret that the quest for Christian unity has come upon hard times. As a…
Three Movie Reviews
Apocalypto When Apocalypto was announced¯a film set in the waning days of the Mayan Empire, with a…
Robo-Jesus
One always hopes that a new year will both usher in what’s truly new and show the…
Stem Cells: A Political History
I It was a season of small demagogueries, a time of the easy lie and the useful…
Education & Soulcraft
Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish Oxford University Press, 208 pages, $19.95 Here…
What Really Happened at Vatican II
What Happened at Vatican II by John W. O’Malley Harvard University Press, 372 pages, $29.95 Vatican II:…
Sin & Cinema
People are basically good, right? It’s a truism drilled into us by any number of self-help books,…
T.S. Eliot on Religion without Humanism
I recently needed to track down a reference in a long out-of-print anthology called Humanism and America:…
Correspondence: Was Shakespeare Catholic?
I shall ignore the shrill personal attacks upon me in Robert Miola’s spleen-venting review of my book…
There Will Be Blood
“Can everything around here be got?” oil man Daniel Plainview asks. “Sure” is the reply. And so…
Two Thomisms,
Two Modernities
The past century and a half of papal teaching on modern times often seems a tangle: any…
Our Stillborn Renaissance
Waldo—as the seventeen-year-old Ralph Waldo Emerson took to calling himself—was one of eight children raised by a…
A Tale of Sound and Fury
Macbeth is Shakespearean tragedy at its scariest. It opens with a crash of thunder and a flash…
