13 Nov The New Augustine? Przywara’s Case for Newman’s Sanctity
John Henry Newman is the Augustine of the modern era.1 More still: Newman "resolves and redeems" all that was left unresolved and unredeemed in the historical Augustine.2 This is the...
28 Aug Kristin Lavransdatter
There are two translations of Sigrid Undset’s remarkable trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter. That by Archer and Scott came out promptly after the Norwegian originals in the early 1920s. Undset had lived in...
22 Aug Reflections on Vulnerability and the Logic of Scarcity
Although the miracle of the loaves and the fishes isn’t in itself a miracle of the Eucharist, it is nonetheless a miracle we can describe as Eucharistic. This isn’t just...
05 Aug Good is prolific
Somewhere in The Idea of a University — Discourse VII, I discover — Newman unfolds a battle flag I have long saluted. He is struggling against utilitarian principles in education; he finds...
30 Jul Make it new
The extraordinary presentation of the Old Testament in the liturgy: as a whole library of ancient texts that are all about Christ. Re-new-al, re-nova-tion, restoration: even the bright lights of the...