Publications

Over the past several months, as story after story of clerical misconduct filled the papers and the news broadcasts, I…

However grim the present circumstances may seem, many of the pre-requisites for a thoroughgoing revitalization of the priesthood in America…

The Triumph of Love, a comedy by the 18th century French playwright, Pierre de Marivaux, has been brought to the screen…

IN JANUARY, the President’s Council on Bioethics began its first meeting with a reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “The Birthmark,”…

About five minutes after the lights came up, the credits started rolling and the closing theme music — which was…

One of the reasons the Catholic Church in America finds itself embroiled in scandal and spiritual crisis is that we…

According to Lionel Robbins’ classic definition, “Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and…

Peter Bogdanovich is one of those directors who is always coming back, though back from where it is never quite…

Every great period of reform in Catholic history has included a thoroughgoing reform of the priesthood and the episcopate. That…

A breezy voiceover at the beginning of Lucky Break, written by Ronan Bennett and directed by Peter Cattaneo, tells us…

Ever since the Catholic Church entered the modern ecumenical movement during the Second Vatican Council, Catholicism’s Marian piety and the…

It is a curiosity to myself how much I hated Crush. Molly Haskell might say that it was because I,…