This is a book I have long needed to read. Martin Luther is in the top tier of 16th-century greats whose life, actions and works forever changed the landscape of Christianity and, therefore, all of Western civilization. Yet my knowledge of the man himself was scant and tainted. In Luther the Great, Lyndal Roper, Regius […]
History
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The Colonial Beginnings of North American Catholicism
Thomas J. Shelley reviews “Continental Ambitions” by
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Fordham: A New York Story
John T. McGreevy reviews “Fordham: A History of the Jesuit University of New York: 1841-2003” by Thomas J. Shelley.
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The music of Van Cliburn was key to a Cold War thaw
Lisa Baglione reviews “Moscow Nights” by Nigel Cliff
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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.
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‘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.
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‘Lincoln in the Bardo’: Between heaven and hell, a half-lit existence
John Anderson reviews “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders.
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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.”
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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.
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A Russian-American family encounters a hostile homeland
Teresa Donnellan reviews “The Patriots” by Sana Krasikov.