While reading Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress I was comforted by the knowledge that I would be compensated for my opinion of it. Here it is: Don’t bother. Enlightenment […]
It comes as no surprise that the buzzwords – pastoral, mercy, listening, discernment, accompaniment and integration which swirled around the Extraordinary Synod on the Family in 2014, the Ordinary Synod on the Family in 2015 […]
“I am perfectly aware,” apologized Fr. Robert Hugh Benson in the preface to Lord of the World, “that this is a terribly sensational book.” But for fans of dystopian apocalyptic novels, no apology is necessary: […]
John W. O’Malley’s new history of the First Vatican Council provides an impartial and detailed account that offers both historical context and insight into the […]
A new biography shows how twenty-first century Europe’s first martyr brought holiness to the ordinary. […]
Bernard Brien’s book Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, Truth Versus Totalitarianism (Ignatius Press, 2018) reminds us that the age of saints and matyrs is not quite past. […]
Pope Paul VI had no doubts about the truth of the doctrinal teaching he set forth in Humanae Vitae, but that he knew given the […]
Laura S. Gossin’s biography, One Man Perched on a Rock: A Biography of Dr. Warren Carroll, is an engaging account of conversion, belief, struggle, and […]
Fiorella De Maria’s second Father Gabriel mystery, The Vanishing Woman, goes beyond the simplicity of much crime-fiction to offer a portrait of the long-term costs of war. […]
That such poetry, as found in recent collections by Ryan Wilson and Mark Amorose, is being published now should tell us that literary culture is far better […]
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