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Yearly Archives: 2008

The West and the rest

In his book, Without Roots, Pope Benedict XVI deplored the addiction to historical self-deprecation rampant at the higher altitudes of European cultural and intellectual...

Sandboxes and seminar rooms

Driving through the Cleveland suburbs recently, I had a great life-imitates-art moment: a sign on Interstate 271 announcing two impending exits, one for “Harvard...

Questions for Father General

Last month, the 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus elected Father Adolfo Nicolas, a Spaniard, as General of the order. A few...

Lourdes and the modern world

One hundred fifty years ago, on Feb. 11, 1858, an illiterate, impoverished 14–year-old girl received the first of 18 visions of Mary, who eventually...

Archbishop Marini on the liturgy wars

Those seeking insight into the ideas that shaped the Missal of Paul VI, the revised breviary, and other facets of the Church’s post-Vatican II...

The Holy See and Islam: the diplomatic dance continues

While the diplomatic maneuvering between the Holy See and Muslim leaders has taken several striking turns in recent weeks, the Vatican’s strategic purpose in...

Anonymity and remembrance in Berlin

I’d not been in Berlin since 1987 — before the Wall came tumbling down — so I eagerly accepted an invitation to speak at...

Enjoying the big questions

It was a very peculiar place in which to find one of the world’s most distinguished philosophers: the hard-currency bar of the Hotel Europa...

An Islamic Leo XIII?

There’s been a lot of chatter since 9/11 about Islam’s need for a Martin Luther, a Muslim reformer who would accelerate this great world...
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