March 2005
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March Letters 71
A Moral Moment Missed? Richard John Neuhaus’ “Internationalisms” (Public Square, December 2004) fails to discuss the current…
Tsunami and Theodicy
No one, no matter how great the scope of his imagination, should be able easily to absorb…
To Fast Again
The renewal inaugurated by the Second Vatican Council sprang in large part from the liberating discovery of…
The Right Wrongs
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff Princeton University Press, 212…
Briefly Noted 8
An Examined Faith: The Grace of Self-Doubt By James M. Gustafson Fortress. 119 pp. $15 paper. America’s…
Chaplain of Shadows
Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz Translated by the author and Robert Hass Ecco. 102 pp. $23.95 Second…
Let My People Go
Christians Versus Muslims in Modern Egypt: The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality by S. S. Hasan Oxford…
Christ and Casserole
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 247 pp. $23. Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, published in 1981,…
The Patriarchal Bargain
Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands by W. Bradford Wilcox University of Chicago…
Choir-Loft Confession
“I Sing Because I’m Happy” and “How Can I Keep from Singing”” O anthems of my ancestors,…
Lift Me, Lord
Lift me, Lord, for I fall and nothing stays me, loveless and heedless, without faith or fear.…
Hot Spell
O sun, old alchemist, you’ve set us wrong. Heat grips the land; the ditch-cut where the stand…
Tardy
We never exactly mean to dawdle or let the day slip by. I stopped at the pond…
Talking to Lord Newborough
(Lt. William Charles Wynn, 1873-1916, 4th Baron Newborough, whose grave overlooks the Vale of Ffestiniog in North…
