Early in Catherine Chandler’s first book, Lines of Flight, she writes of “a six-mile stretch of road” along the historic Route 66, where “two towns align,” one bearing an old friend’s family name and […]
The five hundredth anniversary of the issuing of the Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther, the event customarily taken as the inauguration of the Protestant Reformation, is this October 31st. For such an anniversary, everyone who […]
Why did Robert Cardinal Sarah decide to devote a book to silence? We spoke for the first time about this beautiful subject in April 2015. We were returning to Rome after spending several days in […]
Over the past century, most Western countries have produced great Catholic fiction writers. The UK may rightly pride itself on Evelyn Waugh, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the U.S. on Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor, […]
“There is an organic connection between our spiritual life and the dogmas. Dogmas are lights along the path of faith; they illuminate it and make it secure. Conversely, if our life is upright, our intellect […]
Daniel Mattson is a writer, speaker, and professional musician whose new book Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual Reality and Found Peace (Ignatius Press), is described as a “frank memoir” […]
Dr. James Matthew Wilson (www.jamesmatthewwilson.com), a contributor to Catholic World Report, is Associate Professor of Religion and Literature in the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University; he has been at the university […]
Over the several decades, Catholics in the United States have grown increasingly ignorant of their faith. There are many good ideas and theories about why this is the case, but part of the solution seems […]
There was a time—long, long ago—when librarians believed that an important part of their role was to protect patrons from objectionable reading materials. Keeping books like Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Ulysses, or Tropic of Cancer under […]
Editor’s note: This is the second of a series of reviews and essays—positive, critical, and mixed—of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option (Sentinel, 2017). Read the first essay here. With the publication of La Primauté du spirituel, […]
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