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Case for the Prosecution

From the October 1995 Print Edition

John Cardinal Krol and the Cultural Revolution By E. Michael Jones. Fidelity Press, 550 pages, $35 The Editor-in-Chief of this journal tells me that he knows a Catholic editor who claims that all his friends are conservatives, his close friends are right-wingers, and his best friends are . . . . Continue Reading »

Bully Pulpiteers

From the January 1995 Print Edition

The Roosevelts: An American Saga By Peter Collier, with David Horowitz Simon & Schuster 542 pp. $27.50 The perennial discussion of something called the American civil religion inevitably gets around to reflections on the presidency as a kind of priestly office. It is a form of religious . . . . Continue Reading »