Theology
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Orwell and Contraception
I n 1954, four years after George Orwell’s premature death from tuberculosis, his friend Christopher Hollis recalled:…
Letters
Culture I recently read Jonathan Price’s “Culture by Subtraction” (February) and thoroughly enjoyed it—not least because it…
Skiffling Shuffling Skittering Scuffling
As I am sitting at the stoplight under the maple and oak and cedar treesI see three…
Grace’s Perfections
Paul and the Giftby john m. g. barclayeerdmans, 672 pages, $70 W ith the publication of E.…
Rome’s Resistance
Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitlerby mark rieblingbasic, 375 pages, $29.99 During the Second…
Russian Brahmin
Laurusby eugene vodolazkintranslated by lisa haydenoneworld, 384 pages, $24.99 Eugene Vodolazkin’s novel Laurus has been much praised,…
The Visions of St. Faustina
In 1923 a teenager named Helena Kowalska attended a dance in Lodz, Poland. While she danced that…
Things That Can’t Change
When the Second Vatican Council was putting the finishing touches on one of its key documents, the…
A Mormon Perspective on Religious Freedom
The following was delivered Friday, March 25, 2016, at Claremont Graduate University by Elder Dallin H. Oaks…
Passion Play
At his ascension, Jesus told the eleven disciples that they would receive the Spirit to be his…
A Community Pledged in the Spirit
Mulling my Lenten way through the Apostles’ Creed, I have come to see that in defining what…
Erasmus Before the Storm
Five hundred years ago this year, in February and March of 1516, a Swiss-German printer in Basel…
A Sordid Anniversary, To Be Remembered
On September 24, 1949, Georgii Karpov, chairman of the agency that provided “liaison” to the Russian Orthodox…
Fatima
My first sustained interfaith dialogue was with Mary Jane, when we were both in eighth grade in…
Embodying Mysticism
In No Strange Land: The Embodied Mysticism of Saint Philip Neri Jonathan RobinsonAngelico Press, 308 pages, $19.95…
