August/September 2024
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Empire Under Siege
A storm is coming. Earlier this year, I wrote about the cultural and political disruptions sure to arise…
The Future of The Catholic Church
Is the Second Vatican Council receding in the church’s rearview mirror? Has the Francis pontificate raised new…
Liberalism’s Fourth Turning
Something is wrong with America. A generation after the Great Republic vanquished the Soviet Union and established…
Mozart’s God
In a glass case at Mozart’s birthplace in Salzburg is a small wax doll. Its eyes look…
Letters – September 2024
Theological Anthropology Thank you for printing my friend Fr. Blake Johnson’s excellent piece on women’s ordination (“Mere…
The Fall of Pride
On June 2, 2024, protestors temporarily halted the Philly Pride Parade. They were not congregants of the…
Arabic, A Christian Language
To whom does a language belong? One might think it the possession of all who speak it.…
Lonely Men of Faith
Some Christians regard the thought of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik as so anti-Christian that Christians should take no…
Prayer in a Time of War
I do not understand war. Even in the present time, for all my deeply felt moral and religious…
Building Back Better
Once upon a time, in a faraway place called Brooklyn, there lived a museum director named Anne…
Feel Free
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will by robert m. sapolsky penguin, 528 pages, $35 Many…
Immortal Diamond
Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses by erik varden bloomsbury, 176 pages, $22 In March 2022, the Nordic…
Re-Enchanting Ethics
The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures by oliver o’donovan eerdmans, 167 pages, $40.99 Twenty years ago,…
Angelic Seeing
Passions of the Soul by rowan williams bloomsbury, 160 pages, $15 These reflections, gentle but piercing in…
Judith Butler’s Sophistry
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by judith butler farrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $30 Judith Butler’s status…
Briefly Noted — 9/24
Viri Dignitatem: Personhood, Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Thought of John Paul IIby david h. delaneyemmaus academic,…
Incline Your Ear
Imagine the shell you findon the beach, a large conch,half-buried, glistening inmorning light, waiting to belifted, rinsed,…
