The Best Consoler
by Mark BauerleinDavid Bonagura joins the podcast to discuss his new book Jerome’s Tears. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousI very much enjoyed Armin Rosen’s essay about the Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (“Tarkovksy’s Sublime Terror,” October 2023), but I’m afraid he has made an error of fact about Tarkovsky’s film Nostalghia. Rosen says the protagonist, Andrei Gorchakov, “swallows poison and then . . . . Continue Reading »
Augustus and the Salvation of Rome
by James HankinsThe story of Rome gives us hope in our own day: Times of political collapse will pass, and they can also bring forth unexpected greatness. Continue Reading »
A Witness at the Center of the Church
by Mark BauerleinMsgr. Hilary Franco joins the podcast to discuss his new book Six Popes: A Son of the Church Remembers. Continue Reading »
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD - 2023: #1
Edited by Xavier Rynne IIOne of the most important tasks of Synod-2023 will be the clarification of its own specific character and authority—and just what is meant by “synodality.” Continue Reading »
Seneca, Poetry, and Suffering
by Mark BauerleinDana Gioia joins the podcast to discuss his new translation of a Seneca play, Seneca: The Madness of Hercules. Continue Reading »
They’re Back!
by George WeigelThe theologians’ guild is now promoting proportionalism in, of all places, Roman universities. Continue Reading »
Apostolic Empire
by Sohrab AhmariThe young are eschewing marriage. Birth rates are collapsing. Abortion and even post-natal infanticide are commonplace. Yawning inequalities divide the haves from the have-nots, spreading decadence among the former while immiserating the latter. Society is losing the thread of its noblest . . . . Continue Reading »
Cardinal George Pell: The Encourager
by George WeigelGeorge Pell was a courageous man who “en-couraged” others—who gave others courage, or, perhaps better, drew out of others the courage they did not know lay within them. Continue Reading »
Unintended Consequences
by George Cardinal PellThere probably will never be a consensus on Vatican II and its legacy: to what extent it channeled the Holy Spirit, and how much its implementation was hijacked by the world, the flesh, and the devil. But all those who read George Weigel’s fine new book, whatever their points of view, will find . . . . Continue Reading »
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