June/July 2009
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June/July Letters
Choose Your Own Narrative The main problem with George Weigel’s evaluation (“A Campaign of Narratives,” March 2009)…
China’s Catholic Moment
Not since late antiquity has the world seen a migration of peoples like the great urbanization of…
St. Paul in the Public Square
Consider this passage from St. Paul: “I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying;…
Science Seeking Understanding
The conversation between science and religion has suffered two sad losses recently, with the deaths of Peter…
At the Gates of Notre Dame
We all knew this fight was coming. The Catholic Church and the Catholic colleges have been heading…
Starlight in Hell
One cannot say with assurance that Russia has outdone all other modern nations in cruelty; the competition…
Jewish Survival in a Gentile World
There are only two possible strategies for Jewish survival in a gentile world. One is to be…
Pro-Animal, Pro-Life
Why aren’t vegetarians and pro-lifers more closely aligned? After all, the best writing about ethical vegetarianism—the moral…
Keeping Time
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor New York Review Books, 112 pages, $12.95 paper…
Inventing the Crusades
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam by jonathan riley-smith columbia university press, 136 pages, $24.50 Within a month of…
Collected Letters
The Church’s Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus by Brevard S. Childs…
Cold War Religion
Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945“1960: The Soul of Containment by William Inboden Cambridge University Press, 368…
Sanctifying Islam
The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: A Catholic Perspective by Gregory Baum University of Notre Dame Press, 178…
A Tale of Two Cities
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark Doubleday, 354 pages, $26…
Atheists and Christians Together
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? by Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank MIT?Press, 416 pages, $27.95…
Briefly Noted 230
Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy by Roger Collins Basic Books, 566…
For a Young Dancer on St. Patrick’s Day
At six, her stance is Like a professional’s—she waits her cue Intensely and with no expression, The…
Time Management
Luther in the year he spent as Junker Joerg in Wartburg towers, translated the New Testament to…
For Kashmir
Sooner or later in the night, He’d spring onto the bed, Advance along my flank, and curl…
“I Did Not Come to Call the Righteous”
Matthew 9:9“13 We ninety-nine obedient sheep; we workers hired at dawn’s first peep; we faithful sons who…
Unawares, by Parrots
The sky erupts in rabid, bright-green shrieking, A bedlam which can only mean that harpies, Descending on…
The Mailbox
This white-dust road is in for an evil storm today. The wind seems up to something by…
Los Angeles in Fog
The morning fog obscures the corporate towers, shrouds the shorn palms, slips through the glaucous boughs of…
Georgic
for Bryan Stotts, District Ranger This is the shoreline of a glacial lakebed. Some of its flora,…
Contingency
MORPHINE: Dosage: 200 milligrams, typically 14 light blue tablets. Timing: unconscious in 5“15 minutes, death in 20“50.…
Wine Cellar
I have two barrels of wine stocked in my private store. One’s earthy, one divine; I thirst…
