April 2003
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Just War Tradition Today
I was impressed by George Weigel’s provocative article, “Moral Clarity in a Time of War” (January), which…
Wild Moralists in the Animal Kingdom
The Public Square Prejudice gets a very bad press, but one cannot live without it. On numerous…
The Catholic Center
At the end of last month’s installment of this continuing rumination on Catholic trials and tribulations, I…
Ordaining Women: Two Views
Jennifer Ferrara’s argument is presented first. A decade ago, Michael Novak observed in the pages of this…
The Faith of the Founding
My colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, Walter Berns, has written that the philosophy of John Locke…
Newman’s Liberal Problem
In Scenes of Clerical Life the novelist George Eliot managed to capture in one sentence the true…
A Court Out of Order
In April 2002 at the United Nations, ten countries simultaneously submitted their ratifications to the “Rome Statute”…
The Sport of Easter
The anonymous alliterative Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the gems…
Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity
The arcane academic title of this book” Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity ”offers no…
Wounds Not Healed by Time: The Power of Repentance and Forgiveness
Jews are taught early that the atonement of Yom Kippur must be preceded by the effort to…
Briefly Noted 30
Knowing the Love of Christ: An Introduction to the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. By Michael Dauphinais…
American Studies
It is a rare thing for a work of intellectual history to win a Pulitzer Prize. This…
The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World
The informing vision of this important and subtly argued book is that man is not left to…
