In recent years, there has been a veritable boom in Catholic trade schools, and more are on the horizon. A pioneer in this area is Harmel Academy, a male residential, post-secondary Catholic trade school, opened in the inauspicious months of the […]
The fifty-year period between 1920 and 1970 was a golden age for the Catholic novel. Among the great novels published in that fertile period are Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, Georges Bernanos’ The Diary of a Country […]
I always knew Ross Douthat to be a good writer, able to advocate dispassionately and provide tight, persuasive arguments for his almost always sensible positions. The longtime New York Times columnist, who has somehow found a […]
While it may seem implausible, the funniest book of recent memory is a memoir by a man whose wife asks him for a divorce because she’s fallen in love with another man. It is also […]
In the fall of 2000, during my first semester at Notre Dame Law School, I had the privilege of joining approximately 25 other Notre Dame students for an evening with Father Theodore Hesburgh in his […]
The theologian David L. Schindler once wrote that: [W]e must first recognize that our being originates as a gift: it has always first been given to us by God, and indeed by others in God. […]
Stephen Schmalhofer observes at the beginning of his wonderful book Delightful People, that we all know a striking person whose presence draws us in and lights up a party. Schmalhofer hopes with his book to […]
A common theme of many postliberal thinkers is that we are too often hemmed in by the boundaries and limits of contemporary thinking. As David Schindler, D.C. Schindler, Michael Hanby, Patrick Deneen, and others have […]
It is all here: The understanding of the radical eruption of God in the world through the Incarnation. The necessity of faith to purify reason and that we have a reasoned faith. The recognition of […]
A number of years ago, my spiritual director, a priest, went on a leave of absence because of various troubles. He was considering leaving the priesthood. I wrote a heartfelt letter to offer my thoughts […]
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