Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
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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…
Catholicism as the Other
Martin Scorsese’s recent film The Gangs of New York takes us back to a time when religion,…
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The Wisdom of the World: The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought. By Rémi Brague.…
Herod’s Confusion
As her dance dissolves and smiling Salome Sashays across the floor in smoky veils To join her…
Sweet Sistine
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by ross king walker and company, 373 pages, $28 According to Giorgio…
What’s So Funny
The Morality of Laughter by f. h. buckleyuniversity of michigan press. 239 pp. $29.95 Football, a famously…
The Concert
It offers many dividends: The opportunity to meet And chat with old and new-found friends; The amiable…
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Religious Liberty in America: Political Safeguards. By Louis Fisher. University Press of Kansas. 266 pp. $16.95 paper.…
Remembering Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich died in Bremen on December 2, 2002 at the age of seventy-six. As a German…
Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Human Dignity: The Challenge of Bioethics
Leon Kass has described himself as a strange man who writes strange and untimely books. Given the…
