Theology
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The Case for Yellow Checks
Bishop Robert Barron, the Los Angeles auxiliary and Catholic media personality, recently suggested to the National Catholic…
Identity as Ideology
Like many persons possessing limited insight into the future, I had supposed that, with the collapse of…
Building to No Purpose
Together we can shape the future.” So proclaimed a construction fence poster at the gargantuan new Hudson…
Homesick for Eternity
In 2018, Barack Obama urged his Facebook followers to read Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen. We…
Loving to Know
In many spheres, the question not just of what we know but of how we know is…
American Pilgrimage
We began just after daybreak. One by one, the brigades filed out of the parking lot, each…
Notre-Dame de Paris, by Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855)
Notre Dame is quite old: one will see it perhapsStill bury that Paris it saw at its…
Julian of Norwich in Seclusion
Because an anchoress could have a cat,We may assume she had one. That it satBeside her while…
Some Changed Same
In whitest skeletons the shadows of daydusk dim and, mantle-like, settle and layupon bristling grass and sleeping…
Thirty Years at First Things
This is our 300th number, marking thirty years of publication. In early 1989, Richard John Neuhaus had…
Fierce Loyalties
Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Churchby james chappel harvard, 352 pages,…
Soul Proprietor
Are We Bodies or Souls?by richard swinburne oxford, 208 pages, $19.95 In the history of Western thought,…
Inherited Merit
The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Eliteby…
Civil War Catholics
The Civil War Diary of Rev. James Sheeran, C.Ss.R.: Confederate Chaplain and Redemptoristedited by patrick j. hayes…
Private Faces in Public Places
If the stature of a poet is measured by how well his words stick in the reader’s…
