James Kalb
Dignitatis Humanae, the Vatican II declaration on religious liberty,
appeals to what it says is a growing awareness of human dignity. More
recent Vatican pronouncements, including the new language in the
Catechism on the death penalty, have done the same. In some ways, it’s
easy to see why. The Church holds that God created man […]
Bob Sullivan
In the dark of an August night in 1961, the Russians threw up a barrier
between East and West Berlin which came to be known as the Berlin Wall.
On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan stood at a podium in Berlin and
delivered his famous speech, in which he said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down
this […]
Stephen Fitzpatrick
Many civilized readers just don’t know what to do with Flannery
O’Connor—and for good reason. If you mashed together the works of Saint
Thomas Aquinas and Quentin Tarantino, I think you would get something
very like a Flannery O’Connor story, full of theological brilliance and
significance, but also earthy, violent, aggressive, and even ugly.
O’Connor’s […]
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