Nathaniel Peters

As we clean up formatting errors in the archives, occasionally we find amusing tidbits. Here’s another one, this time from the August/September 2006 Public Square : This is, I suppose, a Louisiana turn on Hilaire Belloc’s little rhyme: “Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, / . . . . Continue Reading »

Thanks to the New Liturgical Movement , I found a beautiful film called Playing Elizabeth’s Tune—The Life of William Byrd . It tells the story of how one of Britain’s greatest composers, a Catholic, kept the favor of Queen Elizabeth in a time of religious upheaval. Narrated in an . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Steven Waldman looks at the data that John C. Green gathered for ” What Happened to the Values Voter? ” in our March issue. The big question for him was why the traditional Catholics voted for Obama more than Kerry. Green said that economic factors . . . . Continue Reading »

Furthermore , if babies help make us human, wouldn’t that mean that fewer babies might make us more selfish and less sociable—in the words of Dr. Hrdy, less human? But I keep getting ahead of myself. . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. They just help make us people and not other primates, reports the New York Times : In the view of the primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, the extraordinary social skills of an infant are at the heart of what makes us human. Through its ability to solicit . . . . Continue Reading »

I posted this last year , but it’s so good I wanted to put it up again. A few years ago a friend of mine sent me these lyrics, which can be sung to the tune of “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things.” Sackcloth and ashes and days without eating, Mortification and wailing and . . . . Continue Reading »

My find of the day was in the March 2005 Public Square—a William James poem that captures one difference between the sexes: Hogamous, higamous Man is polygamous Higamous, hogamous Woman monogamous. The poem may not have been James’ and he may not have been sober when composing it, but, . . . . Continue Reading »

Tom Hoopes, the editor of the National Catholic Register responds to Fr. Raymond de Souza’s article : Father Raymond J. de Souza has written for the Register since 1997 and was the Register’s Rome correspondent from 1999—2003. Our publisher, Father Owen Kearns, knew of Father . . . . Continue Reading »

We have already run two articles on the crisis within the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi. The first, by George Weigel , highlights the gravity of the situation and the need for a legate directly responsible to the pope to take charge of the Legion and save what can be saved. The second, by Fr. . . . . Continue Reading »

” Holy Water, Abstinence, and Mimes ” In case you’re wondering, the article answers questions about their use in keeping Lent. The answers were yes, yes, and no. . . . . Continue Reading »