March 2006
March Letters 81
Godly Science Michael Behe’s elucidation of the social pressures on Catholic scientists to conform to a naturalistic…
On the Other Side of the Gates
The Public Square During those younger years as the pastor of a poor, black, inner-city parish in…
The Truth About Religious Freedom
Just now, as Islamic nations wrestle both with new theoretical ideas and new public policies concerning religious…
The Writing Life
It is the rare reader of fiction who does not at some time or other consider becoming…
The Founding of Nations
“Did the United States really have a beginning that can be called its “Founding”? Can any society,…
The Saints of John Paul II
Of the making of saints there is no end cries the modern Ecclesiastes, and with some justification.…
The Civic University
Forty-five years ago John Courtney Murray, S.J., published his groundbreaking work We Hold These Truths, which he…
In Moral Labor
Near the end of Reproduction and Responsibility, the 2004 report of the President’s Council on Bioethics, comes…
America the Comfortable
Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805, traveled across the United States and some of Canada for…
Briefly Noted 3
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview. by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese…
A Jesus Just for Me
At least you can say this for Garry Wills”he isn’t afraid to change his mind. Whether that…
Apologetics, Unapologetically
Faculty wags have long wisecracked that contemporary Catholicism specializes not in apologetics but in apologies. Unfair as…
The Decent Drapery of Life
The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling By Gertrude Himmelfarb Ivan R. Dee, 288 pages,…
Religion and the Legitimate State
The idea of a social contract first makes its appearance in Plato’s Republic . Men are naturally…
A Jesus Just for Me
At least you can say this for Garry Wills”he isn’t afraid to change his mind. Whether that…