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A Poet Reflects on Our Times

June 20, 2012 Ann Applegarth 0

When Dana Gioia (pronounced JOY-uh) was appointed Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California, the position he now holds, David St. John of USC described his new colleague […]

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Bad Religion, Bad Results

May 24, 2012 Christopher White 0

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat Free Press (New York, 2012) 337 pages. In a 2005 study conducted by sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, they found that […]

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Unintended Problems, Unintended Blessings

May 21, 2012 David Paul Deavel 0

Brad S. Gregory The Unintended Reformation: How A Religious Revolution Secularized Society Belknap Press, 2012 592 pages, $39.95 Modern academic history, according to historian Daniel Lord Smail, suffers from “the inflationary spiral of research overproduction, […]

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Left Behind

June 30, 2011 David Paul Deavel 0

“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 […]

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Realistic Idealism at Work

May 26, 2011 Russell Shaw 0

One day last summer Tom Farr and a friend were having lunch in a Thai restaurant in Georgetown when the friend felt moved to ask Farr a question. President George W. Bush recently had announced […]

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Chesterton Comes of Age

May 16, 2011 David Paul Deavel 0

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 […]

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An Exile No More

May 16, 2011 David Paul Deavel 0

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 […]