John T. McGreevy reviews “Fordham: A History of the Jesuit University of New York: 1841-2003” by Thomas J. Shelley.
History
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The music of Van Cliburn was key to a Cold War thaw
Lisa Baglione reviews “Moscow Nights” by Nigel Cliff
Posted inFaith, Features
How Catholic doctrine developed: case studies from Judge John Noonan
Christianity is not a relic laid in a museum; it is not a book entombed in an archive. It lives in the living people of God.
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Many Things
‘Only God can make a tree’: The Catholic behind the famous Arbor Day poem
It might interest you to know that at least three of the 12 people who have rest areas named after them on the New Jersey Turnpike have some historical association with this magazine.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
‘Lincoln in the Bardo’: Between heaven and hell, a half-lit existence
John Anderson reviews “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Video
Georgetown liturgy does penance for sale of 272 enslaved people
“The Society of Jesus prays with you today because we have greatly sinned and because we are profoundly sorry.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
St. Ignatius, the Jesuits and the pope: a close and complex history
The relationship between the Jesuits and the popes has had far-reaching consequences for the church over the centuries.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A Russian-American family encounters a hostile homeland
Teresa Donnellan reviews “The Patriots” by Sana Krasikov.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
100 years after World War I, is it possible to hope in human progress?
John Matteson reviews two books about World War I: “The World Remade: America in World War I” and “The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Examining the American peace movement prior to World War I
Mark J. Davis reviews “War Against War: The American Fight for Peace” by Michael Kazin.