September 2018
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Briefly Noted
The Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition by reginald lynch, o.p. catholic…
Letters
MARIAN CONTROVERSIES In his review of my book, Mary and the Art of Prayer, Nathan Ristuccia (“Our…
Geoffrey Hill, Prodigal
Among poets writing in English during the last forty years, Geoffrey Hilln was sometimes named the greatest…
CoWo, NoGrow
Back in 1998, at a theological conference, I heard a pastor (we’ll call himn Pastor V.) of…
Cultural Realpolitik
On a clear June day in 2017, two million people lined the route of the Newn York…
Conservatism’s Next Generation
There’s a lot of hand-wringing in Washington over the dramas of the Trumpn administration, not to mention…
Did Joseph Forgive His Brothers?
We still claim to think well of forgiveness, but it has in fact very nearlyn lost its…
Letter to an Aspiring Theologian
I was delighted to receive your letter asking about the best route to becoming a theologian. Let…
Fences and Neighbors
In his famous speech (in Acts 17) to “men of Athens” at the Areopagus, St.n Paul speaks…
Understanding Marion Maréchal
Since the 1980s, the French left and right have formed a front républicain or cordon sanitaire to keep…
Culture War As Class War
The ongoing uproar after the election of Donald Trump led the sociologistn James Davison Hunter to reflect…
Sacramental Realism
To outsiders, the proposal of communion for the divorced and remarried seemsn a modest adjustment. But it…
Fanon’s Warning
Alienation and Freedom by frantz fanon edited by jean khalfa and robert j. c. young translated by steven corcoran bloomsbury academic,…
Steven Pinker’s Muscular Secularism
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progressby steven pinker viking, 576 pages, $35 Steven…
Aristotle Returns
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science edited by william m. r. simpson, robert c. koons, and nicholas j. teh routledge,…
Pagan Piety
Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by jörg rüpke translated by david m. b. richardson princeton, 576 pages, $39.95…
Liturgy and Laity
Una Voce: The History of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Vocen by leo darroch gracewing, 504 pages, $35 In…
On the Baptism of Our Second Granddaughter
“And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart…
Historical Markers
My father stopped at every one of them,A need to know that drove us nuts and slowedOur…
Callistus I
Tertullian tore his dalmatic.Hippolytus had a cow.Both became schismaticwhen Callistus stood the prow. He had a heart…
