Last Sunday, on a day filled with driving children to church, one…
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Answering the Unanswerable: The Failure of ‘Nuremberg’
“Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?”
― Michel de Montaigne
“He don’t know it’s anything he can’t know.”
— Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
Jane Austen at 250
It is a truth not (yet) universally acknowledged that a person in…
Dignitatis Humanae changing history
On December 7, 1965, Pope Paul solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Council’s…
Dying from compassion
The “Mother of Parliaments” — that’s the one in London — has…
The Bible: The singularly great book
The Great Books of Western Civilization were published in the middle of…
Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929–2025)
For more than seventy years, Alasdair MacIntyre was a prolific and provocative…
Pope Francis on reading literature
Last July, Pope Francis issued a letter to the faithful “On the…
The Catholic Difference: Retrospect on a Pontificate
During the March 2013 interregnum following the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI,…