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Disincarnate Christ
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
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?
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...