When Cormac McCarthy died in June at age eighty-nine, the news touched off grief and adulation such as contemporary literary authors rarely inspire. Musicians, scientists, conservatives, Catholics, all have claimed him. One man circulated and posted the notes he’d taken after a series of phone . . . . Continue Reading »
“The Augustine School Statement on Social Theory” is a helpful guide to navigating some of the harmful ideologies and social theories of our day. Continue Reading »
It is as if heaven itself turns down to the earth, while simultaneously, the earth turns up to the sky. The kiss of righteousness and peace is the Advent kiss of the hypostatic union of God and man. Continue Reading »
At the center of financial corruption are practices almost everybody would recognize as wicked. In the worst parts of the clergy, too, there are concentric circles of wrongdoing Continue Reading »
Iniquity, O Lord, can be delicious:always in season, always tender, sweet,blushing, and aromatic. Not capriciousit always hangs low, begging us to eat.One night, I stripped a neighbor’s tree of pears—not grade A pears, but seconds grown for swine—taking them not because the fruit was . . . . Continue Reading »