Robert Royal and I have been friends, colleagues, and co-conspirators for nigh on to four decades. Dr. Royal is a gifted linguist, a serious Dante scholar, and a close student of modern Catholic intellectual life. […]
In a June post at the website Where Peter Is, author Steven Millies, having ritually denounced the “senseless [Catholic] culture war quarrel” and taken another tiresome sideswipe at Bishop Robert Barron’s criticism of “beige Catholicism,” informed us that […]
Karl Rahner, SJ (1904-1984), one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, is a favorite whipping boy for many traditionally minded Catholics. Yet Rahner was something of a split personality. Part of […]
Some years ago, a friend teaching at a state university told me that he was offering a course on the history of baseball. I asked him for his syllabus, thinking there might be books on […]
CRACOW — Adam Michnik was one of the great wordsmiths of the revolution of conscience that began to form in mid-1970s Poland, which was fully ignited by John Paul II in June 1979, and that […]
“Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” was printed on the punch cards that fed data into IBM computers in the 1950s, when those primitive calculating machines could occupy the entire floor of a building. That […]
There are many reasons to regret the transfer of the Solemnity of the Ascension to the seventh Sunday of the Easter season. Among other things, the transfer shortens the Church’s time to reflect on this […]
In the twelve months leading up to next year’s American semiquincentennial, the tale will frequently be told of Benjamin Franklin’s encounter with Philadelphia matron Elizabeth Willing Powel, who asked, as Franklin left the Constitutional Convention: “Well, Doctor, […]
How appropriate that Flannery O’Connor should have been born on the Solemnity of the Annunciation: the liturgical feast celebrating the willing acceptance of a God-given vocation. As we marked Miss O’Connor’s centenary three months ago […]
In its recent non-decision, St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic School v. Drummond, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand an obtuse Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that excluded St. Isidore’s from the state charter school program. Notre […]
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