Like Bernard McGinn’s multi-volume history of western Christian mysticism, a history of poetry in the life of the Church would …
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Modernity, Common Goods, and Jacques Maritain (Part 1)
The first parts of this paper are elementary expositions of positions that will be presupposed or alluded to in the …
Converts: Graham Greene’s Fraught Relationship with the Confessional
Graham Greene became a Catholic because of a pedantic girl. He was at Oxford at the time, and had written …
On the Illegality of Illegal Immigration
Years ago, between college and figuring out my life, I worked on a construction site in Manhattan. There were work …
City and Campus Diverge: Introducing the Collegiate Gothic
Educational and religious architecture in South Bend from 1900 to the 1930s reflected trends that developed in commercial and residential …
Toward a Catholic Anthropology of Early Childhood
Some souls seem to bend more easily toward goodness than others. Even in childhood, this disparity haunted me—not simply as …
The Stories We Live By: Myth, Reason, and the Search for the Good Life
Human beings live by stories. This is the oldest human truth, yet the one modern culture most quickly forgets. This is …
The Vital Difference Between Czesław Miłosz and Zbigniew Herbert
Milosz, Herbert, and Myself (1956-1967) I have often been asked to describe what it was like to spend an evening …
Recognizing Christ
There is a goal, but no way.—Kafka It is undeniable that there is an unknown (the geographers of antiquity drew …
God’s Spooks: Religion, Spying, and the Cold War
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.—John 8:32, inscribed on the wall at CIA …