Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
In Praise of Irrelevant Reading
When I moved to England to start a Masters degree in theology, I knew I wanted to…
Gethsemane
Gethsemane means “olive press.”A place where the fruit of the tree is crushed and squeezedand the unbearable…
The Vision of Father Neuhaus
In his insightful new biography, Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square, Randy Boyagoda recounts the…
Ubi Amor, Ibi Oculus
The following essay is adapted from remarks given at NYU’s Catholic Center as part of the Thomistic…
Harry V. Jaffa’s Call for Liberation
Perhaps the most heatedly denounced work of a distinguished scholar is Harry Jaffa’s occasional writing on homosexuality.…
My Women’s Studies Seminar
When I started graduate school in English in the early 90s, I thought that a certificate in…
Natural Rights, The Imago Dei, and the Moral Economy of Sex
Remarks prepared for “Human Rights and the Sexualization of Culture,” the Fourth Annual Symposium of the Center for…
Gentler
Men and women should be gentler with one another; what was it my godmother used to say?…
With the Bath Water
When data started to accumulate, we didn’t think the end would be so tragic. Facts were such…
E-book Momentum Slowing Down
Two weeks ago, I reported on a poll by Scholastic demonstrating the importance of parents reading aloud…
Catholicism Before and After 1963
In trying to understand the extraordinary changes the Catholic Church underwent in the middle of the twentieth…
The Theology of Patti Smith
Patti Smith is known as the “godmother of punk,” but she always had higher goals than trying…
Picturing Mary
The new exhibit at Washington D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother,…
The Only Creatures Who Disobey God
Yesterday I took a glorious walk with my wife on one of the ridges of the Appalachian…
Epiphany
Each year I shroud them in their bubble wrap, The kings next to the shepherds and their…
