Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by diarmaid macculloch viking, 752 pages, $40 They said it could not be done. At least Sir Geoffrey Elton, to whose memory his former doctoral student has dedicated this book, said it could not be done. According to him, as Diarmaid MacCulloch reminds us, . . . . Continue Reading »
We need a new understanding of what is at stake. Continue Reading »
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by john w. o’malley belknap, 320 pages, $24.95 In 1860 Pope Pius IX lost the papal states, which had been held by his predecessors for a thousand years. Four years later he issued the Syllabus of Errors. The eightieth and . . . . Continue Reading »
A review of Jonathan Leaf's Pushkin: A Life Played Out. Continue Reading »
Canova's statue of George Washington warns against straying from republican virtues in a quest for empire. Continue Reading »
R. Marie Griffith's work is well researched, but conceptually thin. Continue Reading »
With World Youth Day 1993, Catholicism in America discovered the adventure of the New Evangelization. Continue Reading »
Forty years after his death, Paul VI continues to offer a striking witness of suffering, patience, and generous love. Continue Reading »
Since the 1980s, the French left and right have formed a front républicain or cordon sanitaire to keep the Front national (FN) out of power. When Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter Marine took over the party in 2011, she understood that the only road to electoral success . . . . Continue Reading »
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science edited by william m. r. simpson, robert c. koons, and nicholas j. teh routledge, 352 pages, $140 Raphael’s School of Athens depicts Aristotle and Plato at the center of a group of ancient Greek philosophers modeled on . . . . Continue Reading »
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