France has been shaken by the realization that gifted people have been abusers. Some were known but their abuse was ignored; the pedophile author Gabriel Matzneff, once honored, is now in disgrace. But the worst […]
A favorite college professor of mine often remarked, “Life is short, and books are long (and plentiful).” This was his playful way of lamenting that there are so many wonderful books “out there,” but not […]
From its very outset Christianity was . . . a feeling which merely disgusted, hid and decked itself out in its belief in a ‘another’ or ‘better’ life . . . a Beyond, invented in […]
In January of 1994, then-Vice President Albert Arnold Gore Jr., while speaking to the Institute of World Affairs in Milwaukee, committed one of his best known linguistic faux pas. While praising the diverse character of […]
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., has been a prominent voice in the Church for decades. A Capuchin priest, he served as bishop of the Diocese of Rapid City (South Dakota) from 1988-1997, at which […]
I admire anyone who has the guts to write anything at all.” — E.B. White The novel Cheaper by the Dozen saved my life. Like every student who passes through St. John’s College’s Great Books […]
Even if the term sui generis wasn’t invented for him, the late-Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete was its Platonic ideal. Albacete, who died in 2014, was a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, an astrophysicist, a one-time […]
The woke mobs of the cancel culture have come for Winston Churchill, both here in the United States and in his home country, where the man was long considered a hero who did nothing short […]
One of the joys of co-hosting the FORMED Book Club with Father Fessio and Vivian Dudro is the opportunity it presents to read and discuss some of the newest books published by Ignatius Press. We […]
Richard Weaver, the political philosopher, once wrote that “ideas have consequences.” And therein lies a tale. In June 2001, exactly 20 years ago, a friend of mine and his wife attended a meeting in Washington, […]
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