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Disincarnate Christ

Gabriel Torretta

Silenceby shūsaku endōforeword by martin scorsesepicador, 256 pages, $16 Silence a film directed by martin scorsese paramount, 161 minutes, $19.99 Vincent Shiozuka’s life was a failure. Raised Christian in...

Zeno’s Sickness unto Death

Gabriel Torretta

I do not feel healthy comparatively. I am healthy, absolutely. For a long time I knew that my health could reside only in my own conviction, and it was...

What’s Wrong With Poetry?

Gabriel Torretta

When I was young I reflexively told people I liked poetry. I hardly knew any poets and barely understood those I had read, but poetry seemed to be a...

An Unprincipled Charity

Gabriel Torretta

Archbishop Charles Chaput has written two useful meditations ( “A Principled Charity” and “Catholic Charity in Secular America” ) for our On the Square page on the nature of...

Shakespeare’s Measured State

Gabriel Torretta

“Law is framed as a rule or measure of human acts,” says Thomas Aquinas, and “different things are measured by different measures.” Human “measures” or laws direct men to...

Queering the Statue of Liberty

Gabriel Torretta

On a visit to the Statue of Liberty with some international guests this weekend, I noticed a series of poster boards set up just inside the pedestal of the...

The Married Lifestyle

Gabriel Torretta

Linguistic battles are difficult when the words are obviously different (gender vs. sex, pro-life vs. anti-abortion, etc.). They are much harder when the word stays the same, but the...

Evangelical Atheists vs. Humanity

Gabriel Torretta

A short street in southwest Brooklyn has given some militant atheists the opportunity to prove once again that being angry against God turns one against man, as well. Richards...

…But There’s Nothing Wrong with Abortion

Gabriel Torretta

Mara Hvistendahl, author of Unnatural Selection , has been making the rounds in the media drawing out some of the shocking and under-appreciated consequences of sex-selective abortion around the...

The Same-Sex Marriage Bill Catholics and Republicans Passed

Gabriel Torretta

Friday’s same-sex marriage vote in New York makes one thing abundantly clear: an organized minority will trump a disorganized majority. The push for gay marriage was well planned and...

Larkin’s Heavenly Body

Gabriel Torretta

Corpus Christi is the liturgical feast for poetry. The audacious claim that bread and wine become body and blood for the life of the world needs the poet’s dense...

Choice Omnia Vincit

Gabriel Torretta

The wholesale slaughter of unborn girls that has ravaged countries like China, India, and Korea is perhaps the most characteristically modern tragedy, perfectly fitted to a fleshless Internet age....

Art’s Irrational Infanta

Gabriel Torretta

Modern art’s greatest search is for a definition of itself. The meta-question”What is art?”often overwhelms the specific questions of art theory, like the nature of beauty, the use of...

Now This Is an Awesome God

Gabriel Torretta

Is the increasing secularism of modern society getting you down? Do you lament the loss of biblical literacy? Do you shed quiet tears when your well-timed comments about bricks...

The Cold Fire of the Holy Spirit

Gabriel Torretta

Human efforts all show their fault lines sooner or later”Rome fell, Communism crumbled, and even the flag on the moon will tip over eventually. But Pentecost is the perpetual...