Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Religious Freedom: Innovation and Development
According to John Henry Newman, whose two hundredth birthday we celebrated in February 2001, Christianity came into…
Millennials Floating
This time last year, a book called Millennials Rising began to make headlines. The authors, Neil Howe…
Why Angels Fall: A Journey Through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo
Why Angels Fall , a mixture of travelogue and theological/religious commentary on the history and culture of…
Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America
At a recent conference on the ethics of withdrawing nourishment and fluids from mentally incompetent patients, I…
The Divided Self of William James
In his 1895 meditation on the question “Is Life Worth Living?” William James concluded that human life…
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The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights . By Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Yale…
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Examining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Edited by Anthony J. Cernera and Oliver J. Morgan. Sacred Heart University…
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Jonathan Glover is stirred and troubled by the atrocities of the twentieth century, and wants to know…
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
My worn and heavily marked copy of the original hardback edition of Peter Brown’s biography of St.…
The Ways of the Will
The publication of an expanded and revised version of Leslie Farber’s The Ways of the Will nearly…
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In Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929“1963. Edited and with an introduction…
Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy
In 1996, Robert Kagan and William Kristol published a widely read article in Foreign Affairs advancing the…
The Future of the Papacy: A Symposium
In the February issue First Things published the Erasmus Lecture of 2000, “Papacy and Power,” by George…
The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul
“Why should the Jewish state exist at all?” Until quite recently, there was a ready answer to…
Papacy and Power
Pope John Paul II’s considerable effect on our times is conceded by admirers and critics alike. The…
