If you were puzzled by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano ‘s positive article on President Obama’s Notre Dame speech—which appeared right next to another article strongly criticizing his stand on stem-cell research—the paper’s editor, Paulo Rodari, may have cleared things up a bit in an interview yesterday: Apparently, Rodari is under the decidedly false impression that “Obama is not a pro-abortion president.”
The Revival of Patristics
On May 25, 1990, the renowned patristics scholar Charles Kannengiesser, S.J., delivered a lecture at the annual…
The Enduring Legacy of the Spanish Mystics
Last autumn, I spent a few days at my family’s coastal country house in northwestern Spain. The…
The trouble with blogging …
The trouble with blogging, RJN, is narrative structure. Or maybe voice. Or maybe diction. Or maybe syntax.…