Restoring Notre-Dame

by Samuel Gregg

The planned redesign of Notre-Dame de Paris’s interior is an atrocity that will turn the cathedral into little more than a Catholic Disneyland. Continue Reading »

17 Dec 2021

Notre-Dame de Paris, 2015

by William Flesch

Most evenings I’d meet Daniel right in frontOf City Hall, to walk home for our mealOn Rue Domat, just westward of Rue Dante.We’d stroll across the bridges, always steal A glance at militaires patrolling thereIn threes (in Charlie Hebdo days), while highAbove the gardens and above the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2020

Notre-Dame de Paris, by Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855)

by William Flesch

Notre Dame is quite old: one will see it perhapsStill bury that Paris it saw at its birth;But in a few thousand years Time will cause to collapse(As wolves do to cattle) this carcass to earth,Twist its tendons of iron, then with a deaf toothChew its bones made of rock, which fills us with ruth.From . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2020

Cultural Nihilism

by R. R. Reno

The decline in life expectancy in the United States is a symptom of a failing culture. It is driven by deaths of despair: Suicide rates are up, as are drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases. Those are hard, cruel facts. There are other signs of failure, more auspicious ones. We read about young . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2019

Our Lady of Hope

by Nathan Pinkoski and J. A. A. Pateron

There is a desire in France to continue the heritage that preceded us, and which must continue after us. Continue Reading »

2 May 2019