The Night Prayer of the Church as a “Rehearsal for Death”
Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington
Kant, Peter Pan, and Why Generation Y Won't Grow Up
Tom Slater, Spiked
Raul Lemesoff Turns a Ford Falcon into a Tank-Shaped Traveling Library
Nina Azzarello, Designboom
Why We Confess: From Augustine to Oprah
Elizabeth Stoker Bruening, The Hedgehog Review
Lincoln's 700 Words of Biblical Meditation
Daniel Dreisbach, Library of Law and Liberty
A Kiss
David Tomas Martinez, Poets.org
A new law and religion competition in Venice starts next week. Continue Reading »
Celibacy is not simply a practice that improves an individual's self-mastery. It is a way of life that strengthens churches, communities, and cities. Continue Reading »
This is Russia
Brian Doyle, The American Scholar
2,500 Years of Gyms
Mark Mason, The Spectator
Song of Weights and Measurements
Martha Silano, The Poetry Foundation
The typical American—and, indeed, Congress—views the president as having the powers of a monarch. The president himself knows that he has the powers of a monarch. It seems that the only people in America who aren’t convinced of the president’s status as our elected king are four, maybe five, justices on the Supreme Court. Continue Reading »
Two weeks ago First Things hosted a lively conversation between Randy Boyagoda and Sam Tanenhaus over the new biography, Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square.C-SPAN was there to film the discussion, and it will be broadcast this weekend as part of the Book Notes program. Times . . . . Continue Reading »
Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts
Justin McBrayer, The New York Times
Music to Shoot You By
Ted Gioia, The Daily Beast
Elegiac
Elisabeth Murawski, Poetry Daily
What Notre Dame Does Better Than Yale
Margaret Blume, Ethika Politika
Problematic
Matthew Schmitz, The Hedgehog Review
The Arts & Faith Top 25 Films on Memory
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