On Meeting Sally Read: Poet, Writer, Convert from Atheism
As I entered Soho Square the bell of St. Patrick’s Church started to toll. It was three o’clock in the afternoon. The bell rang out three times and then continued tolling. It was the hour […]
Month: December 2016
Books
Books for Christmas
Exodus, by Thomas Joseph White, OP, is a recent addition to the multi-volume Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible. Father White’s brilliant reading of one of the foundational texts of Western civilization is well-introduced by […]
History
Pearl Harbor: A Reflection
At approximately the same moment my mother entered into a movie house, paying 14 cents, in Brewerytown, in North Philadelphia, to see a show and view news reels depicting a demented socialist/fascist raising a stiff […]
Ecclesia et Civitas
How many cheers for capitalism?
Many Christians argue for capitalism on the grounds that markets and private property support man’s rightful freedom, and doing away with them means poverty and tyranny. That seems a strong argument, so in response opponents […]
Film & Music
“Arrival” and the Unique Manner of God’s Speech
Like E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Starman, Independence Day, and a host of similar films over the past thirty years, Arrival explores the theme of an alien visitation to earth. In this iteration, Louise Banks (played by Amy Adams) […]
General
Persons or property? Celebrity embryo lawsuit escalates
While much of the media ridiculed businessman Nick Loeb when he filed a lawsuit last year to prevent his former fiancée, TV star Sofia Vergara, from destroying the frozen embryos they created together in 2013, […]
Analysis
Catholic Vietnam: Growing despite Communist oppression
Late last month, the president of Vietnam, Tran Dai Quang, met with Pope Francis for a private audience at the Vatican. Though the meeting was described by the Holy See Press Office as “cordial,” relations […]
News
Holy League Men’s Conference to feature noted speakers, challenging messages
The first Holy League Men’s Conference, to be held in Salem, Oregon, the weekend of December 16-17 will feature addresses by Fr. Theodore Lange, Carl E. Olson, and internationally-noted speakers Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, Jesse Romero, and […]
Books
Travesties of Newman
No Englishman—or only Lord Byron—ever fascinated his countrymen more than John Henry Cardinal Newman. Lord Macaulay was convinced that the British public’s fascination with Byron was mostly pharisaical. For the great Whig historian, the man […]
Waiting for the War That Is Already Here
We shall not flag or fail. We shall defend our homeland, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight in the town councils, we shall fight in the workplaces and in the school boards, we […]