March 2002
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Catholic Doctrine and Religious Freedom
Avery Cardinal Dulles claims that on the question of religious freedom the difference between the nineteenth“century popes…
Home Alone in the Universe?
As I first learned at a dinner table surrounded by new acquaintances, questioning people’s belief in extraterrestrial…
Liberalism’s Religion Problem
In God’s Long Summer, Charles Marsh’s splendid book on religion in the civil rights movement, the theologian…
Flaubert and the Sin Against the Holy Ghost
Hope is the thing with feathers, Emily Dickinson wrote. Had she composed a longer poem or lived…
A Better Concept of Freedom
On October 31, 1958, Isaiah Berlin gave his inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political…
Fare Thee Well, Tony Lewis
It hardly seems possible that I have been reading Anthony Lewis for thirty-two years. In fact, I…
Orthodoxy and “Parallel Monologues”
I don’t know how many of our subscribers are Orthodox Christians. But from those who are, we…
Reinventing Sexual Ethics
I am reliably informed that there is a Neuhaus’ Law to the effect that, where orthodoxy is…
The Uses of Anger
I’m angry, and I have been ever since I watched a 767 slam into the North Tower…
The Best Bioethics That Money Can Buy
“A bioethicist is to ethics what a whore is to sex.” That judgment by a friend who…
The One True Church
It has been a while since the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued Dominus Iesus…
Feathers of Scandal
The story is told of St. Philip Neri (1515–1595) that he gave a most unusual penance to…
While We’re At It
• Here’s something else from the Barna research folk in California that we really needed to know.…
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Hitler and the Holocaust. By Robert S. Wistrich. Modern Library. 295 pp. $19.95. Robert Wistrich’s Hitler and…
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Theoretical and Political Life
Alexis de Tocqueville is an ines capable presence in the contemporary debate about the nature of the…
C. S. Lewis Then and Now
Wesley Kort’s C. S. Lewis Then and Now is extraordinarily puzzling. It contains many fresh and valuable…
Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
In the current literature on the connections between science and religion, it is rare to find a…
Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City
History dominates the Israeli“Palestinian conflict. Selective memories on both sides produce partial narratives that deny or obscure…
Ireland’s Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation’s Soul
In saying that Marcus Tanner’s Ireland’s Holy Wars is predictable I don’t want to give readers the…
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Hitler and the Holocaust. By Robert S. Wistrich Modern Library. 295 pp. $19.95 Robert Wistrich’s Hitler and…
Poetry
When all roads led to Rome, unRoman ways made inroads into Rome so Rome’s ways changed. Now…
