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Articles by Gerald J. Russello

About Gerald J. Russello
Gerald J. Russello is editor of The University Bookman (www.kirkcenter.org) and editor of two volumes of work by Christopher Dawson.
The Dispatch

Faith, doubt, and fiction in a secular time

April 16, 2020 Gerald J. Russello 1

The worldview Nick Ripatrazone portrays in Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction is sorely needed in these days of social distancing filled with concern that physical closeness could breed infection. […]

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Recovering the historical roots, true meaning of “social justice”

April 13, 2020 Gerald J. Russello 6

What can Catholic social thought tell us about how to order our political and economic relationships? Ever since at least Quanta Cura (1864) and Rerum Novarum (1891), Catholic social teaching has been reacting to and […]

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Beyond Tenebrae is a robust, winsome defense of Christian humanism

January 21, 2020 Gerald J. Russello 3

The legendary Georgetown professor Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., who died last year, was known for packing an introduction to liberal education in each of his books. He would cover topics from Plato to Peanuts […]

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Cui bono? Bringing Thomistic thought to bear on modern economics

April 25, 2019 Gerald J. Russello 6

Last January, the Vatican issued a “Bolletino” titled Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones, subtitled “Considerations for an ethical discernment regarding some aspects of the present economic-financial system.” Like many such Vatican documents on complicated social questions, the […]

Books

Douthat’s lament: Francis “must have known that it did not have to be this way”

March 22, 2018 Gerald J. Russello 45

To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism seeks to make sense of a pontificate that began with great promise but has […]

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The East, the West, and Simon Leys

January 24, 2018 Gerald J. Russello 2

A new book details the fascinating life of author Simon Leys, who may have been the last great Catholic man of letters. […]

History

The Poet, the Great War, and “The Break”

December 11, 2014 Gerald J. Russello 0

The centenary of World War I has occasioned numerous commemorations of the generation of poets who wrote about the war. The work of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, Julian Grenfell, Wilfred Owen, […]

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