May 2008
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A Commonplace Book
Awhile back, I started keeping a commonplace book. Commonplace book is an odd phrase, perhaps, because what…
Contemptus Mundi and the Love of Life
Just down the road from the lively Piazza Barberini is a Capuchin church, Santa Maria della Concezione.…
The Freedom of Theology
Benedict XVI, before becoming supreme pastor of the Catholic Church, served for two decades as a theology…
Shakespeare’s Religion
In 1613, at the end of his career, Shakespeare joined John Fletcher to dramatize the reign of…
A Marriage in Full
In 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a letter from his prison cell in Nazi Germany to a young…
Uncomfortable Unbelief
A Secular Age by charles taylor belknap, 896 pages, $39.95 Much about the new atheism that has…
The Ethics of Immigration: An Exchange
William W. Chip Until very recently, serious conversation about immigration was all but banished from mainstream American…
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Possibilities of Life
I was privileged to count him as a friend for well over a quarter century. The two…
Jews as the Romans Saw Them
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by martin goodman knopf, 624 pages, $35 When I…
The Crescent and the Scimitar
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh…
The Music of the Spheres
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis by michael wardoxford university press, 384…
Child of the Revolution
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey Knopf, 288 pages, $24.95 His Illegal Self is Peter Carey’s tenth…
Briefly Noted 217
Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence by Alexandre Havard Scepter, 172 pages, $16.95 Augustine called it…
Prophesying to the Breath
I’m tired of it, this labored breathing. Tired of phlegm and coughing and the fight for air,…
Drinking Stars
Down in the soul’s wine cellars The casks of virtue brood. They’re aging through the centuries, Like…
Wisdom 13:5-9
We worshipped moon and sun, comets, the circling stars, Venus and bloodstained Mars, ignorant of our duty…
Missing Mass
My plane was late”I’ve missed the evening Mass; So now I take a walk and try to…
The Better Part of Valor
A would-be body-surfer, eight years old, he fell in with the ocean’s mood of calm, reviewing each…
Safekeeping
Each thing has its tangent Angel or ghost to keep it From the overwhelming host
Charity’s Gift
Pinioned here, I look downwards to see My mother weeping in unfettered grief Her heart transfixed by…
American Crust
We upper-crust must be discussed In deferential accents. We want not, waste, exhibit taste, Possess exquisite tax-sense.…
