Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Thinking Under the Influence
You know you’re getting old when trimming your toenails becomes an ordeal. They don’t look as if…
The Lesser Angels of Our Nature
The lesser angels of our present dangerArraign the better angels of our natureAnd rearrange the stature of…
Return to St. Thomas
Here we are, with four children, at late Mass, The nave a bloated hull of tin, the…
Humanities and Communities
We communicate more today than at any time in history. Social media platforms, online fora, video chats,…
Shadow Show
In the last fifty years, Artemisia Gentileschi has risen to new eminence. She originally gained fame among…
The View from Here Is Glory
This Our Exile by joshua hren angelico press, 142 pages, $18 What is “Catholic fiction”? Must it…
The Impermanence of Place
When I was young, I had a recurring dream. I’d be walking home from grade school—it was…
Versions of Paul
The mostly Baptist congregations in which I grew up included only a handful of academically trained biblical…
The Cosmic Gamemaker
Integrating God+Love+Lawby luis tellezwitherspoon, 80 pages, $12 In Integrating God+Love+Law, Luis Tellez urges readers, especially his target…
The Cloud of Unknowing
Despite the doubt and forked ambivalence,Approach, avoid, ignore, yet hope to shareIn some impossible benevolence,To care and…
The Way Of Love
Don’t be afraid; and never yield to hate,whilst knowing love, appearing so pristine,contrasted to a thing as…
In For the Long Haul
I’m writing from San Antonio, Texas, where Wendy and I are visiting our daughter Mary, our son-in-law…
A Touching and Feeling Faith
Everything Happens for a Reason:And Other Lies I’ve Lovedby kate bowlerrandom house, 208 pages, $26 If the…
Rebuild Christchurch Basilica
In February 2011, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and damaging dozens of…
Air Turbulence and the Resurrection
If there’s anything Catholics in the United States should have learned over the past two decades, it’s…
