Nathaniel Peters

Or rather, he came to Europe and has now returned to our shores to grace us once more with his blessed presence. The Times (London) had a delightful piece on his messianic visit across the pond: The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, . . . . Continue Reading »

For those who don’t know, Dappled Things is a magazine highlighting the art, poetry, and prose of young authors, primarily Catholic ones. That alone would catch our interest, but one of Dappled Things’ founders was our former assistant editor Mary Angelita Ruiz, so there’s a . . . . Continue Reading »

Jordan Hylden recently wrote about the many serious issues at stake in the upcoming Lambeth Conference. But on a lighter note, a friend of mine showed me a cartoon by Dan Walker, the Cartoonist-in-Residence for Lambeth 2008, depicting the less serious side of preparing for episcopal conferences. . . . . Continue Reading »

So says the critic Joe Queenan in the Guardian (via Arts & Letters Daily ). After 40 years and 1500 concerts, Queenan doesn’t think much of the taste of the average concert-goer, but he also doesn’t like much of contemporary composition either. When beauty, order, and meaning have been . . . . Continue Reading »

Today in the Wall Street Journal William McGurn writes on the growing number of African-American pro-lifers, many of whom are alarmed at the disproportionate number of abortions in the black community: A fact sheet from the Guttmacher Institute puts it this way: “Black women are 4.8 times as . . . . Continue Reading »

At the Papal Youth Rally back in April, my colleague Amanda Shaw and I managed to sneak into the press section. We dodged the Secret Service in part by being interviewed by some folks from Sirius Satellite Radio’s The Catholic Channel who were on hand to cover the event, and in part by their . . . . Continue Reading »

A forum of that title took place a few weeks ago at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer here in New York. Fr. Neuhaus spoke on what Benedict said to American non-Catholics. Many of his remarks will be reprinted in the forthcoming issue of First Things , but if you want to see them in full, as well as . . . . Continue Reading »

My colleague Amanda Shaw has a nice review of Leszek KoÅ‚akowski’s philosophical primer Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? in the new July/August issue of Touchstone . The review isn’t available online, but do check it out if you find a copy of Touchstone . For more . . . . Continue Reading »

From the man who brought us great works of apologetics, refutations of relativism, and A Summa of the Summa , comes I Surf, Therefore I Am: A Philosophy of Surfing . Kreeft’s new book is released tomorrow, but here’s sneak peak at the introduction: Non-Introduction This book is for . . . . Continue Reading »

Jonathan Last rightly pointed out that I was overly optimistic about the new movie of Brideshead Revisited . In a long, meaty essay in the Independent , John Walsh examines the rumors over the film, what it was that Waugh himself was trying to communicate, and why the book is so highly esteemed. . . . . Continue Reading »