The author explores the effect of Catholicism on the imagination and the fiction of Protestant novelist in England during the decades surrounding Catholic emancipation and the reestablishment of th…
Elias Chacour grew up in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. When tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps in 1948, Chacour began a long st…
Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to fe…
In A Canticle for Bread and Stone Emilio DeGrazia sings a lovely song in memory of a disintegrating way of life. As Salavatore Amato searches for meaningful work in 1970s America, he stumbles onto …
What first appears as a tiny moving shadow, no bigger than a fly, on the dazzling horizon slowly reveals itself as the grim shape of violence and death; in the destruction left behind—the motherâ…
Hiil and the Sea, originally published in 1906, handsomely exemplifies the observation that Belloc "can take his text from some trivial happening or phenomenon and weave arround it a rich garment o…
With a vast and callous army closing in on them fast, there is nowhere for Desire and the other Young Revolutionaries to run. This is not how her journey is supposed to end, certainly not before it…
Readinhg Dante's Divine Comedy is much like visiting a cathedral. Visitors who try not to miss anything in a cathedral are apt to defeat themselves because it is too much, and readers of Dante who …
Ben Witherington III attempts to reenchant our reading of Paul in this creative reconstruction of ancient Corinth. Following a fictitious Corinthian man named Nicanor through an eventful week of bu…
Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism is the definitive collection of essays on Tolkien's masterpiece. The essays span fifty years of critical reaction, from the first …