Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Why We Can’t Confess Over Zoom
If you are stuck at home, or dying in a coronavirus-ridden hospital, can you dial a priest-confessor…
Looking Forward to the Peaceable Kingdom
As you may have gathered from my most recent column, I’m not choosing my reading based on…
The Case For Drive-In Masses
Most American Catholics no longer have access to public Masses, and may not have access for some…
Meditating on COVID-19
The fifth Sunday of Lent is traditionally known as Passion Sunday. During the two weeks between Passion…
Perilous Directions
Original Prin: A Novel by randy boyagoda biblioasis, 224 pages, $14.95 Pity the satirist: He labors under…
Transforming Quarantine Into Retreat
This bruising Lent, in which “fasting” has assumed unprecedented new forms, seems likely to be followed by…
Briefly Noted
Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence, 1944–45by freya and helmuth james von moltke translated by shelley frischnew york…
Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 31
Tuesday. More overcast skies. More cold. Ugh. Spring is being shy. She delays her entrance. Hard to…
Taking Sheen Seriously
Fulton J. Sheen is defined in popular imagination by the persona he adopted on Life Is Worth…
The Ghost of Classical Liberalism
In America, most right-leaning pundits espouse some form of “classical liberalism,” a theory that stresses free markets,…
Contrapuntal Order
Around the start of the seventeenth century, a new sense of the word “harmony” emerged. To that…
Trophies
Who says we give away the pearls we own?Think make-believe: think souvenir or prizefor weathering a storm,…
Professors as Propagandists
Imagine that you recently discovered a book titled How Cancer Works, written by a respected professor from…
Three Epigrams from Richard Crashaw, Epigrammata Sacra
Phariseus et publicanus. Luc xviii. 14–19 En duo templum adeunt, diversis mentibus ambo. …
Learning Latin
Some people acquire foreign languages more easily than others. I, alas, am one of those others. I…
