Editors

Review: Arriving at Amen
Br. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P., Dominicana

Marriage is Not About Fancy Clothes and Nice Flowers, Says Pope
Catholic News Service

Spinster and the “State of the Female” Article
B. D. McClay, Fare Forward

Lessons Learned
Edward Short, The Weekly Standard

Oxford's Influential Inklings
Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski, The Chronicle Review

Last week I read Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the kind of fun space romp that the Guardians of the Galaxy film tried to be without quite succeeding (the parodies of bureaucratic-speak and jokes about Guardian readers are enough to make a sad puppy smile). I also read King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou-choi, a very useful book on Hong Kong's Quixote, though I'm not persuaded that what he did is properly called “art.” I also reached the end of the Decameron and have started on it again, this time armed with notes.
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Rowan Williams: Can We Ever Be In Charge of Our Own Lives?
Rowan Williams, The New Statesman

Called to Greatness: Vocation and Dignity
Sherif Girgis, Ethika Politica

Smith's Transgender Delusion
Jonathan V. Last, The Weekly Standard

German Bishops to Allow Employees in Same-Sex Unions
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register

Life in the Public Square
Randy Boyagoda, Michael W. Higgins, Molly Worthen, CBC radio

Pope Francis suggests Divine Comedy as Vital Reading for Year of Mercy
Catholic News Service, Catholic Herald

Review: A Short Guide to Praying as a Family
Br. Joseph Martin Hagan, Dominicana

How to take Christ out of Christianity
Alana Massey, The Washington Post

The Conference Manifesto
Christy Wampole, The New York Times

On Fraternities and Manliness
Emily Esfahani Smith, The New Criterion

From Parent to Parenting
Joseph Epstein, Commentary

Only the Chaste
Bevil Bramwell, OMI, The Catholic Thing

Synod. The Proposal of a “Third Way”
Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Pope Francis, Tony Palmer, an iPhone & the Holy Spirit
Sean Connolly, Patheos

How Raising the Minimum Wage Hurts Small Bookstores
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative

Alba
Rick Mullin, The New Criterion

Another Misguided MOOC
Samuel Goldman, The American Conservative

Is the West's Loss of Faith Terminal?
Antony Gormley, Standpoint

Interview: David Brooks on sin and the state of his soul
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post

Millennials and Marriage: We've Lost the Concept of What Love Is
Matt Hadro, National Catholic Register

I went on a vacation last week and took with me Charles Singleton's beautiful updated edition of John Payne's translation of Boccaccio's Decameron. It's a perfect vacation book: large (952 pages in my edition), escapist (the characters retreat to the country to escape the Black Death ravaging Florence), and diverting. My intent was to read the tales of the book as they are told by its characters, ten per day. My vacation was cut short by unhappy circumstances, but my reading of the Decameron has continued, and continued to be a delight.
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Science and Miracles
Brother Thomas Davenport, O.P., Dominicana

Why Women Aren't Having Children
Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic

Littlemore Tracts
R.M.A. Pilon, Littlemore Tracts

Syrian Christian Leader Warns, We Could Disappear
John L. Allen, Crux

The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology
Thomas Joseph White, O.P., CUA Press

Copts and Robbers
Richard Tada, The Weekly Standard

Options
James Chastek, Just Thomism

A “War” Between Science and Religion?
Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

What's Owed
Dan Rosenberg, Verse Daily