Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Lovejoy Street
The house where we were happy, Perhaps it’s stranding still On the wrong side of the railroad…
Where Have All the Children Gone?
We have referred frequently to the dramatic decline in population around the world. The following excerpt from…
Text Before Subtext
Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court’s Wittiests, Most Outspoken Justice edited by Kevin A. Ring Regnery.…
Easter Morning
Quick as dawn, the dogwoods have raised improbable awnings, christened with rain. Thrusts of witch-hazel, stands of…
Tardy
We never exactly mean to dawdle or let the day slip by. I stopped at the pond…
The Bad Divorce
We’re Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorceby constance ahrons harpercollins 304 pages $24.95…
Solitude—The Wilds
What solitary distances, what sere, remote escarpments, what unbounded, wide eternities they are where you reside, in…
The Love of Saint Thérèse
The Pope leaned toward her, so that “their faces nearly touched,” and Thérèse hurriedly whispered her desire…
What Good Is It That Girls Need Never Go To War?
What good is it that girls need never go to war Or wear a shield or…
Kierkegaard for Grownups
That extraordinary writer of stories about the “Christ-haunted” American South, Flannery O’Connor, was frequently asked why her…
An Era’s Last Hurrah
A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O’Connor By Charles F. Duffy Catholic University of…
Briefly Noted 20
Hitler and the Vatican: Inside the Secret Archives That Reveal the Complete Story of the Nazis and…
Olber’s Paradox
The heavens hold more stars than earth has grains Of sand, and given time, each tiny sun…
Evangelicals in the Dock
It’s called straining a gnat and swallowing a camel. At its annual meeting in Atlanta in November…
Europe’s Problem—and Ours
Go back in your mind’s eye to the fall of 1940, the fateful period that Winston Churchill…
