April 2024
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Letters – April 2024
Rossetti’s Art Living within a stone’s throw of the nation’s leading collection of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art housed…
St. Nick Saban
When our exterminator, Ervin Humes, showed up at the house back in September 2023, he and I…
Cardinal Fernández Misleads
Joseph Ratzinger, better known as Pope Benedict XVI, stepped down from the papal ministry in 2013. But…
Biden’s Collegiate Catholicism
Whereas John F. Kennedy encouraged Americans to view his Catholic faith as a private matter, Joe Biden…
Boundless Prayer
A colleague of mine is extraordinarily productive: reams of articles, books, editing duties, institute-leading, fundraising. It’s the kind…
Against the Young
The other month, I attended a conference thick with members of the clergy. It had everything you…
Everyday Freedom
Something is wrong. Throughout the West, people are angry, anxious, and discontented. Paradoxically, the ill temper arises…
Writing My Autobiography
Are you still writing?” he asked. “I am,” I answered. “What are you working on at the…
Normophobia
From the standpoint of social development, the family cannot be considered the basis of the authoritarian state,…
Milton’s Apple and Ours
Why did Eve bite the apple? Milton puts this question at the center of Paradise Lost, the greatest…
Suicide of the Radical Right
On May 21, 2013, the French writer Dominique Venner took his own life in front of the…
Free the Children
Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be by timothy…
Antifragile Faith
Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Cultureby aaron m. rennzondervan, 272 pages, $26.99 On…
Results May Vary
The Best Effect: Theology and the Origins of Consequentialismby ryan darruniversity of chicago, 320 pages, $35 When I…
Spinoza in Full
Spinoza, Life and Legacyby jonathan i. israeloxford university, 1,344 pages, $49.99 Cursed be he by day and cursed…
Nourishing Mystery
The Eucharist in Modern Philosophyby xavier tilliette, translated by jonathan martin ciraulocatholic university of america, 200 pages,…
Briefly Noted
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donneby katherine rundellfarrar, straus and giroux, 352 pages, $30 There’s a poem by…
Late April Snow Storm
The land is all alight with Easter colors,Tulips in pink and orange bending overThe clumps of daffodils…
The Ends of the Earth
The wind shears through hardwoods, then rain brings down the leaves here, eight…
An Easter Celebration
And so, we’ve come to this,a new beginning in an end,and celebrate the way we didjust days…
Abundance
Clear water on a Catskill stream spills,flowing down a smooth rock faceinto a pool shaped like a…
