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Opinion

2005 December Letters

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Jewish Babies

Ben J. Wattenber Jeremy Kadden

New Square is a small village in Rockland County, New York, less than an hour’s drive from…

Orphans by Design

Eric Cohen

“Orphan” is one of those words that seems old-fashioned to modern ears”a word that evokes abject poverty…

Scientific Orthodoxies

Michael J. Behe

Back in the 1970s, when my wife Celeste was in the seventh grade at Our Lady of…

Reviews

Who Would True Valour See?

Wesley J. Smith

John Brown—Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by david…

The Literary Bible

M. D. Aeschliman

Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architecht of the Spiritual World by Robert D. Denham University of Virginia…

Persons and Rights

Russell Hittinger

Who is My Neighbor? Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights by Thomas D. Williams The Catholic…

East of Eden

Gregory Feeley

Fallen by David Maine St. Martin’s, 256, $23.95 The Perservationist by David Maine St. Martin’s, 240 pages,…

Strange Spirits

Philip Jenkins

Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality By Leigh Eric Schmidt HarperSanFrancisco, 352 pages, $26.95 Where two…

Poetry

December

William Baer Fra Cesare Angelini (1887-1976)

December, the month of that most holy day, which makes Christian even the falling snow. (In whispers,…

78 Flavors

Daniel Waters

Next in line, we get the blues from Having too much choice to choose from. Later on,…

Advent Windows

Kevin Andrew Murphy

Holy Holle, Mother Winter, Shakes her eider till it flutters, Till the ticking frees its feathers, Drifting,…