Columns
A good biopic is hard to find, but Wildcat artfully delivers
In the new movie Wildcat, a feverish and immobile Mary Flannery O’Connor, played by Maya Hawke, asks her parish priest, played by Liam Neeson, whether he [...]
A good biopic is hard to find, but Wildcat artfully delivers
Columns
In the new movie Wildcat, a feverish and immobile Mary Flannery O’Connor, played by Maya Hawke, asks her parish priest, played by Liam Neeson, whether he has ever read James Joyce. He admits he has not, [...]
The population of hell and the limitations of human freedom
Chapp's Schtick
With the promulgation of the latest document from the DDF (Dignitas Infinita) much focus has been on the use of the word “Infinite” in the title as a qualifier for the ontological nature of human [...]
Features
Whodunnit? The Strange Case of Shakespeare’s Will
William Shakespeare is a mystery. What we know about the facts of his life is outweighed by what we don’t know. His life can be likened metaphorically to a jigsaw puzzle in which most of [...]
Books
Toward a Confessing Church
Note: Earlier this spring, Ignatius Press published “True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church.” The author delivered these remarks at the University of Dallas on April 19. I’d like these comments to [...]
Editorial
Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting
A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...]
Features
There is no going back, just going through
“I just want to go back to before,” says FBI Agent Olivia Dunham to Special Agent-in-Charge Phillip Broyles in the pilot episode of the science fiction series, Fringe (2008-13). Dunham is a good agent who found [...]
Books
The poetic waters run deep in Jane Clark Scharl’s Ponds
In early 2023, Jane Clark Scharl debuted her verse drama Sonnez Les Matines to appreciative audiences in New York City. The ability to sustain a successful drama in verse—and good verse, at that—was a worthy testament [...]
Books
Telling children the story of St. Dominic, with help from man’s best friend
Eleanor Bourg Nicholson is an award-winning novelist, scholar, Victorian literature instructor for Homeschool Connections, a Dominican tertiary, and a homeschooling mother of five. Hound of the Lord: The Story of Saint Dominic, written for children and from [...]
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In the new movie Wildcat, a feverish and immobile Mary Flannery O’Connor, played by Maya Hawke, asks her parish priest, played by Liam Neeson, whether he has ever read James Joyce. He admits he has not, [...] -
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A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...] -
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Carl E. Olson:
Hmmmm. Not so fast: Let me cut to the theological chase: the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar wasn’t a…
JL:
Francis is leading the church astray. That is just the truth.
Gerard Rakoczy:
A few years prior to covid I adopted a half wild abused dog, before it was put down. During covid…
