Family

A selection of recent articles on this topic

RJN: 11.12.05 For the record…

Richard John Neuhaus

For the record: Wal-Mart has apologized for what it describes as “the inappropriate and inflammatory comments” to…

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Various

Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature. By Nicholas Boyle. University of Notre Dame Press.…

To the Golden Gate Bridge

Moore Moran

In 1942 when I was ten and you were five, we got together Sundays as I’d head…

Why We Work

Gilbert Meilaender

Just Work by Russell Muirhead Harvard University Press, 224 pp. $24.95 That work is essential to human…

Briefly Noted — 05/05

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Divorcing Marriage: Unveiling the Dangers in Canada’s New Social Experiment edited by daniel cere & douglas farrow.…

No Longer Neutral

Ishmael Law

God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation are Changing America by Naomi Schaefer…

Where Have All the Children Gone?

Richard John Neuhaus

We have referred frequently to the dramatic decline in population around the world. The following excerpt from…

Lovejoy Street

A. E. Stallings

The house where we were happy, Perhaps it’s stranding still On the wrong side of the railroad…

Text Before Subtext

Maxwell Goss Elizabeth Goss

Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court’s Wittiests, Most Outspoken Justice edited by Kevin A. Ring Regnery.…

Easter Morning

Joseph Bottum

Quick as dawn, the dogwoods have raised improbable awnings, christened with rain. Thrusts of witch-hazel, stands of…

Tardy

Joseph Bottum

We never exactly mean to dawdle or let the day slip by. I stopped at the pond…

The Bad Divorce

Elizabeth Marquardt

We’re Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorceby constance ahrons harpercollins 304 pages $24.95…

Solitude—The Wilds

Rhina P. Espaillat Miguel Hernandez (1910-1942)

What solitary distances, what sere, remote escarpments, what unbounded, wide eternities they are where you reside, in…

The Love of Saint Thérèse

Philip Zaleski

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?

Len Krisak

What good is it that girls need never go to war     Or wear a shield or…