Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Bad Divorce
We’re Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorceby constance ahrons harpercollins 304 pages $24.95…
Solitude—The Wilds
What solitary distances, what sere, remote escarpments, what unbounded, wide eternities they are where you reside, in…
The Love of Saint Thérèse
The Pope leaned toward her, so that “their faces nearly touched,” and Thérèse hurriedly whispered her desire…
What Good Is It That Girls Need Never Go To War?
What good is it that girls need never go to war Or wear a shield or…
Kierkegaard for Grownups
That extraordinary writer of stories about the “Christ-haunted” American South, Flannery O’Connor, was frequently asked why her…
An Era’s Last Hurrah
A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O’Connor By Charles F. Duffy Catholic University of…
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Hitler and the Vatican: Inside the Secret Archives That Reveal the Complete Story of the Nazis and…
Olber’s Paradox
The heavens hold more stars than earth has grains Of sand, and given time, each tiny sun…
Evangelicals in the Dock
It’s called straining a gnat and swallowing a camel. At its annual meeting in Atlanta in November…
Europe’s Problem—and Ours
Go back in your mind’s eye to the fall of 1940, the fateful period that Winston Churchill…
Catholicism as the Other
Martin Scorsese’s recent film The Gangs of New York takes us back to a time when religion,…
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The Wisdom of the World: The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought. By Rémi Brague.…
Herod’s Confusion
As her dance dissolves and smiling Salome Sashays across the floor in smoky veils To join her…
Sweet Sistine
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by ross king walker and company, 373 pages, $28 According to Giorgio…
What’s So Funny
The Morality of Laughter by f. h. buckleyuniversity of michigan press. 239 pp. $29.95 Football, a famously…
