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A selection of recent articles on this topic
The End of the Irish Troubles, a Moment of Transcendence, and Sacramentum Caritatis
Taoiseach . I’ve been listening to the way the Irish pronounce it, and you’re safe in going…
Bono Still Hasn’t Found What He’s Looking For
U2 rock star and humanitarian Bono has come in for some recent criticism. According to Advertising Age…
Christianity Is an Enemy That Gives Hedges Meaning
The audience was shocked. Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize¯winning reporter, delivered a Princeton University lecture on the…
The Feeling Intellect
Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher, by William Taussig Scott and Martin X. Moleski, S.J., Oxford University Press,…
Cardinal Newman for Ash Wednesday
No theologian working inside the traditions of western Christianity was more sensitive to the rhythms of the…
Episcopal Elevation, Pitstick the Theologian, and the Fate of Europe
Some Muslims in America are unhappy with us. And apparently they know something I don’t. This from…
The Journey Home
This evening (Monday) at eight o’clock, Fr. Leonard Klein will be the guest of Marcus Grodi on…
RJN: Iraq and Things to Come
I have no privileged perspective on the wisdom or lack thereof in President Bush’s Wednesday night address…
Reason and Pop Atheism
The publishing world, it seems, is just as prone to the fickleness of trends and fashions as…
Bottum: Who to Reread in 2007
It’s weeks into 2007 already, and I don’t really know what I’m going to read this year.…
Rose: Free Will and the NY Times
After printing an evenhanded op-ed on neurology and the paranormal (registration required), the New York Times carries…
RJN: On St. John and Mormons
With stunning abruptness we’re jostled from the Christmas Mass (the Christ Mass) to the feast of St.…
RJN: A Few Items …
Herewith a few items, definitely not in order of importance: “Group invites world to come together for…
Anderson: Peter Singer’s Animals
Animal-rights activists are up in arms about a recent statement by Peter Singer¯a bioethics professor at Princeton’s…
Bottum: Christmas in New York
Another Christmas Rerun ¯this one from the new December issue of First Things . Shouldn’t you be…
