As a lifelong educator and student of American educational history, I was intrigued by the announcement that Pete Hegseth of Fox fame (along with David Goodwin) had penned Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a […]
Edward Short is the author of Newman and his Contemporaries, Newman and his Family, and Newman and History, Culture and Abortion, as well as Adventure in the Book Pages: Essays and Reviews. He writes for a number of periodicals, […]
Catholic practice collapsed in the West in the 1960s: the statistics are overwhelming. France, the eldest daughter of the Church, went from 25% Sunday Mass attendance in the 1950s to less than 2% now; the […]
The poet, literary biographer, and Catholic spiritual writer, Paul Mariani published his last book of poems, Ordinary Time, in 2019. Much of it written in the aftermath of his recovery from a brain tumor, the […]
Edward Feser, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. Called by National Review “one of the best contemporary writers on philosophy”, he is the author of many books including Five […]
Dr. Christopher Shannon is a member of the History Department at Christendom College and author and co-author of several books. His most recent book is American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey through Catholic Life in a […]
Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) is most famous for her award-winning Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy. But she wrote much more than that epic work of historical fiction. Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts, a new biography and study of […]
Stephen Schmalhofer observes at the beginning of his wonderful book Delightful People, that we all know a striking person whose presence draws us in and lights up a party. Schmalhofer hopes with his book to […]
Fictional portrayals of purgatory have a grand lineage. Dante climbed the seven-tiered mountain centuries ago, and Tolkien placed his character Niggle (in the short story “Leaf by Niggle”) in a sort of otherworldly hospital-cum-labor camp. […]
“Christ is always present in His Church,” states Sacrosanctum Concilium, Vatican II’s document on the Sacred Liturgy, “especially in her liturgical celebrations. He is present in the sacrifice of the Mass, not only in the […]
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