Jonathan B. Coe
In a recent essay in this magazine, I explored the parallels between the
story about the children of Israel dancing around the Golden Calf (Ex.
32) and what’s happening among priests and prelates in the American
Catholic Church. The article, with an assist from Aquinas, scrutinized
their idolatry through the prisms of wealth, pleasure, power, […]
K. V. Turley
Press reports last summer suggested that the French have rediscovered
the devil. Across the Channel there appeared to be at large a variety of
“do-it-yourself exorcisms” taking place, alongside a growing band of
free market—and unofficial—exorcists who, according to The Times, were
advertising their services to the French public at a price, for example,
to […]
Amy Fahey
Despite years of reading, rereading, and teaching great works, I
continue to marvel at the inevitable timeliness of timeless literature.
And so, as I prepare to teach “The Death of Ivan Ilych” once again, on
the cusp of the month the Church has dedicated to All Holy Souls, I am
struck by how Leo Tolstoy’s novella […]
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