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A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
The Offense of Piety
The intemperate, even violent tone in recent criticisms of faith is quite striking. Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens: They…
Crazy for God
Someone must have arranged this. It’s as if Frank Schaeffer’s book Crazy for God was designed to…
The Cross Under the Crescent
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque:Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam by sidney…
Religious Freedom Upside Down (and a word on William F. Buckley Jr.)
Steven D. Smith, professor of law at the University of San Diego, has an admirable review of…
The Pope and the United Nations
The pope has John Allen worried. In a column published in the New York Times , Allen,…
The Death of the Grown-up
My reflexive response on reading Diana West’s The Death of the Grown-up has been to keep announcing…
