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Essays

Dechristianizing America

Richard John Neuhaus

Principled Immigration

Mary Ann Glendon

Not for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples.…

An Almost-Chosen People

Paul Johnson

When Abraham Lincoln called Americans “the almost chosen people,” he used an apt phrase, as valid now…

The Churches of Earthly Power

Russell Hittinger

Michael Burleigh’s study of European religion and politics requires us to imagine a very different Europe than…

Islam and Us

George Cardinal Pell

Can Islam and the Western democracies live together peacefully? Optimists seize on the assurance of specialists that…

Opinion

Correspondence

Various

Misplacing Children

Gregory C. Popcak

Attempting social engineering at gun-point, the State of Massachusetts recently ordered the Catholic Church to place adoptive…

Jews and the World to Come

Byron L. Sherwin

n 2004, on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” correspondent Nina Totenberg declared, “Jews do not believe in…

Reviews

Unchurching

Jason Byassee

Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor. HarperSanFrancisco. 224 pp. $23.95. There are really two books here. One…

Jarring Sects

Wesley J. Smith

A Jealous God: Science’s Crusade Against Religion by Pamela Winnick. Nelson Current. 368 pp. $25.99. Is science…

Faust in the USSR

Cynthia Grenier

The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin. Putnam. 354 pp. $24.95. Olga Grushin, a young Russian-born…

Our Bodies, Ourselves

Charles T. Rubin

Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto by simon youngprometheus, 417 pages, $28 The Singularity is Near: When Humans…

A Christian People

Thomas F. X. Noble

A People’s History of Christianity: Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Denis Janz, Richard A. Horsley, and…

Briefly Noted 84

Various

A Short History of Thomism. by Romanus Cessario. Catholic University, 106 pages, $19.95. There are Thomists, and…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

His Space and Time Each morning when he wakes he reaches forHis glasses and his watch, his…

Poetry

Various

His Space and Time Each morning when he wakes he reaches for His glasses and his watch,…