Catholicism
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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
As I write these words, The Holocaust Industry is causing enormous debate in British intellectual circles. It…
The Sexual Century
In The Sexual Century , Ethel Spector Person, a New York psychoanalyst associated with Columbia University, presents…
Technicians of Learning
Modern institutions talk about themselves. When a corporation refashions itself—undergoes a complete makeover not merely to look…
Edward Shils in Heaven
Edward Shils in Heaven Dear Edward, sleepless, lonely, I think of you tonight In Heaven, out for…
What Price Reform?
The Reform of the Papacy: Costly Call to Christian Unity by John R. Quinn Crossroad/Herder & Herder,…
The Justice in Just War
Morality and Contemporary Warfare by james turner johnson yale university press, 259 pages, $25 The average person…
Between Father and Daughter
Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Loveby dava sobelwalker and company, 432 pages, $27…
The Democratization of Science
“It is degrading to an American to take everything on trust, and even the young farmer and…
Briefly Noted
Crisis of Conscience edited by john m. haas crossroad, 173 pages, $15.95 This collection of essays represents the fruit…
The Holy Feminine
Catherine of Siena by giuliana cavallini, o.p. cassell academic, 163 pages, $60 cloth, $21.50 The Flowing Light…
John Paul II and the Crisis of Humanism
As Time and other premillennial makers-of-lists have discovered in recent months, there is no lack of candidates…
Edith Stein, Apostate Saint
The recent canonization of Edith Stein as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross by the Roman Catholic…
The University at the Heart of the Church
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 94 (June/July 1999): 22-25. The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), “From…
Augustine Then and Now
Living in Two Cities: Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought.By Eugene TeSelle.University of Scraton Press. 227 pp. $19.95…
A Christian University: Defining the Difference
The title of George Marsden’s most recent book on Christian higher education referred to the idea of…
