Foreign Affairs
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Pope Packer
J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life by leland ryken crossway, 432 pages, $30 I f Evangelical Protestants…
Equality Across Borders
Rediscovering America: Liberty, Equality, and the Crisis of Democracy by john agrestoasahina & wallace, 236 pages, $16.00…
After Dinner, a Beheading
November 2015 will be remembered as the month in which the world woke up. The year began…
A Thanksgiving Meditation on Freedom and Its Enemies
Shortly after jihadist murderers killed over 130 people in Paris, seven of the terrorists blowing themselves up…
Mercy in a World Gone Mad
The day after the brutal terrorist attacks in France by ISIS, French President Hollande gave his country’s…
Refugees
In 1975 I decided I was going to get me a refugee, and I did. A lot…
European Reconciliation
Currently, visitors to the Vatican Museums in Rome have the opportunity to visit an exhibition devoted to…
Overlooked Philosophy
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Vol. II by…
John Paul II’s “Beloved Krakow”
Several years ago, Father Raymond de Souza, one of my fellow faculty members at an annual Kraków-based…
Nostra Aetate Fifty Years On
It was, on the face of it, a minor theological gesture, yet it brought about one of…
A Tale of Two Cities—And of Two Churches
You will recall the lapidary opening of Dickens’s famous novel of London and Paris in the period…
Mirror of Magistrates
For Christians, 1 and 2 Samuel are “history.” For Jews, they are among the writings of the…
Pius XII, Co-Conspirator in Tyrannicide
Written from Rome: The great Piazza San Pietro is a five minute walk from where I’m living…
When Francis Came to Cuba
We should cheer any time a pope mingles with sinners. It’s what Jesus did, and what his…
Remembering Castro’s Crimes
Last December, when the United States announced that it would be re-establishing diplomatic relations with Communist Cuba…