Space! Outer Space! The sooner, the better! Or so I claimed yesterday : “Space is the obvious next horizon for human beings. Want to diminish the biotech revolution to its proper role as a curer of disease? Offer a more exciting goal. Build a rocket ship, and fly it to Mars.”
The recent news from the Moon is a good first step. If there’s water there, then the Moon can serve as a reasonable staging platform for the ascent to Mars. Where’s the Vatican’s space program? Where’s the plan we need?
Letters
Joshua T. Katz’s (“Pure Episcopalianism,” May 2025) reason for a theologically conservative person joining a theologically liberal…
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…