Confession: Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in America by patrick w. carey oxford, 392 pages, $34.95 In the 2013 Joseph Gordon-Levitt romantic comedy Don Jon, the porn-obsessed title character hits the confessional, reels off his usual list of sins against chastity, and then . . . . Continue Reading »
Franco: Anatomy of a Dictator by enrique moradiellos i.b.tauris, 264 pages, $30 Not long after the successful Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944, Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, removed a photograph of Adolf Hitler from his desk in the Pardo Palace in Madrid. He promptly replaced . . . . Continue Reading »
One evening in the late 1960s, the students gathered in Yeshiva University’s major study hall to learn Talmud were treated instead to a speech by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, the young director of the advanced graduate rabbinic program. The topic was the struggle of Soviet Jews to emigrate. Unlike . . . . Continue Reading »
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World by christopher de hamel penguin, 640 pages, $45 Illuminated manuscripts remain cultural touchstones of the Middle Ages, symbols of forgotten learning, mystery, and beauty. Unfortunately, they are often locked away in . . . . Continue Reading »
Europe is coming apart at the seams, but not in the ways the E.U. intellectuals divine. Continue Reading »
Standing up for the mob’s victims should be on the Church’s agenda for the justice of all people, especially when its victims are her own children. Continue Reading »
Peter Steinfels has done the Catholic Church a tremendous service by telling some disturbing truths about the August 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report. Continue Reading »
Cuomo, through his murderous support for abortion legislation, coupled with his consistent invocation of his own Catholic identity, has crossed over from private failing to public witness against the faith. Continue Reading »
Condemnations of Bishop George Bell served the purpose of a Church trying hard to look decisive and stern about priestly abuse—a problem it has in fact handled very badly. Continue Reading »
Bishop Foys and Archbishop Joseph Kurtz lived out our elite’s moral ideal by condemning their own children in the interest of self-realization and social order. Continue Reading »
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