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Yearly Archives: 2011

The lay reform of Church and world

Two volumes recently published by Encounter Books address key issues in the New Evangelization. The first, Marcello Pera’s “Why We Must Call Ourselves Christians,” is...

Tim Tebow and Christophobia

Two weeks into the NFL season, ESPN ran a Sunday morning special exploring why the third-string quarterback of the Denver Broncos, Tim Tebow, had...

9/11, Benedict XVI and Regensburg

In the flood of commentary surrounding the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I found but one reference to a related anniversary of considerable importance: the...

Father Barron’s ‘Catholicism’

In the fall of 1972, a group of us, philosophy majors all, approached our dean of studies, Father Bob Evers, with a request: Under...

Russian Orthodoxy and Lenin’s Tomb

Almost 40 years ago, an aging Anglican clergyman told me a story about his first trip to Paris as a boy—perhaps in the 1920s....

The gentlemanly art of the insult

One of the (many) signs of our cultural decline is that verbal insults, these days, are almost invariably scatological or sexual, provoking a blizzard...

In praise of Peter Berger

At the end of his new intellectual memoir, “Adventures of an Accidental Sociology: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore”(Prometheus Books), Peter...

Among the ‘progressed’

Thomas Merton is usually thought of as a liberal or progressive Catholic, which in many respects he was: he certainly tilted left politically, on...

Martyrdom in Pakistan

Sixty-four years ago, on Aug. 14, 1947, Great Britain’s empire in the Indian subcontinent was divided into the independent, self-governing Dominions of India and...

Benedict XVI on Europe’s future

World Youth Day 2011, to be held in Madrid from Aug. 16-21, will be an important moment in Pope Benedict XVI’s campaign to remind...
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