Love Among the Ashes
by Brian A. GraebeThis year brings the rare convergence of Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day, and they have a surprising complementarity. Continue Reading »
When Feast and Fast Collide
by Leah Libresco SargeantAsh Wednesday and Valentine’s Day offer the pattern for our marriage in miniature—love expressed through mutual dependence. Continue Reading »
When Feast and Fast Collide
by Leah Libresco SargeantAsh Wednesday and Valentine’s Day offer the pattern for our marriage in miniature—love expressed through mutual dependence. Continue Reading »
When Feast and Fast Collide
by Leah Libresco SargeantAsh Wednesday and Valentine’s Day offer the pattern for our marriage in miniature—love expressed through mutual dependence. Continue Reading »
The Fall of the Irish Mammy
by John DugganThe proposed changes to the Irish constitution seem to be inviting Ireland to advance further into an era of cognitive dissonance about motherhood. Continue Reading »
Fiducia Supplicans and Doctrinal Clarity
by Hans FeichtingerUnless the Holy See takes concrete measures now against those who go beyond the limits established by Fiducia Supplicans, it will lose credibility and authority. Continue Reading »
The Mystery of Israel
by Sohrab AhmariThe “mystery of Israel”—that’s what Jacques Maritain called Israel’s endurance as the people of the Old Covenant, its indomitable insistence on Jewish particularity over and against the universal claims of Christianity. Through the ages it has been a source of both legitimate . . . . Continue Reading »
Captain Bob
by Casey ChalkOn the day my family moved into our home in Northern Virginia, we found a bottle of champagne with a card from the sellers affixed. They congratulated us on our purchase—a fixer-upper with a jungle of a backyard—and told us how much they had loved the neighborhood. “And be sure to make . . . . Continue Reading »
Joan of Arc, Gender Theorist
by Dan HitchensWhen the nineteen-year-old Joan of Arc was told she would be burned at the stake, she reacted with horror—not for the reasons you or I might give, but on more mysterious grounds. According to the Dominican friar Jean Toutmouillé, who visited her at the prison in Rouen on the morning of May . . . . Continue Reading »
Above the Thunderstorm
by Erik VardenAt first glance, it seems odd that a major academic publisher should commission a volume on, as it were, the phenomenology of religious life. Insofar as they are perceptible at all, religious have retreated to the margins of our imaginative universe, as defendants in court cases, amiable extras in . . . . Continue Reading »
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