One loud and raucous cheer for those Catholic academics who so loudly challenged Speaker of the House John Boehner, this year’s commencement speaker at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. “Dear Mr. Speaker,” they […]
“Have you met any of these young retro-Catholics?” This question was directed to my table by a priest in his early 60s at the closing banquet for the American Catholic Historical Association several years ago. The priest […]
The death of Father Richard John Neuhaus on January 8, 2009 from complications of cancer, less than a month after the death of his dear friend, Cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ, has left a large void […]
From early in his career critics compared G.K. Chesterton to Dr. Johnson, perhaps rightly so. Both were largely self-taught yet revered men of letters—neither had earned university degrees—who unashamedly professed orthodox Christianity in a literary […]
The reports of the death of the Catholic novel have been greatly exaggerated. Referring to his 1982 study of the Catholic novel, Albert Sonnenfeld called it “an elegy for an apparently dying form.” A couple […]
Blessed John Henry Newman, who denied that he was, properly speaking, a theologian, observed that “to write theology is like dancing on the tight rope some hundred feet from the ground. It is hard to […]
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