January 1997
January Letters 132
An Illegitimate Regime? While I do not retract a word of my criticism of the judiciary’s usurpation…
Under the Shadow
The Public Square Under the Shadow For my sins, part of my misspent youth was misspent in…
The End of Democracy? A Discussion Continued
Participants: William J. Bennett, Midge Decter, James C. Dobson, Mary Ann Glendon, John Leo William J. Bennett…
To Reclaim Our Democratic Heritage
The symposium on the judicial usurpation of politics has generated an intense debate about many things, as…
That They May All Be One: The Imperatives and Prospects of Christian Unity
Relations between Catholics and Evangelical Christians have traditionally been rather cool at their very best. While Catholics…
Science and the Story that We Need
The principal spiritual problem confronting those of us who live in a technological age was spoken of…
The Coming Age of Cathedrals
I rarely have occasion to walk through Times Square in Manhattan, so I found myself somewhat taken…
In Defense of Sectarian Catholicity
Elsewhere in this issue ( “The Unhappy Fate of Optional Orthodoxy,” Public Square ) my colleague Richard…
Consecrating the President
This month a hundred million Americans will watch a United States Supreme Court Justice once again ask…
Briefly Noted 132
Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth: Sacred Doctrine and the Natural Knowledge of God By Eugene Rogers, Jr…
Can Muslims be Democrats?
Islam and Democracy By John L. Esposito and John O. Voll. Oxford University Press. 232 pages. $45.…
Sorting Out the Culture Wars
Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World By…
Exorcising Demons
Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry By Frank Walsh. Yale University Press,…
Pope 007?
His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time By Carl Bernstein and Marco…
A Writer in Flight?
The StatementBy Brian Moore.Dutton, 250 pages, $22.95 Brian Moore writes about the life of faith from the…
The Dying Infirmarian
He felt isolated but knew the ritual, Had witnessed more than four score And been a mortician…
Jupiter
Michael LeBeau has wet his pants. He is Jupiter, the fifth planet, with a mass 318 times…
Dogwoods Not This Spring
The dogwoods will not bloom this year, We feel it in trunks and limbs, No pink crosses…
Dogwoods Not This Spring
The dogwoods will not bloom this year, We feel it in trunks and limbs, No pink crosses…