Once upon a time, not even in this century, in the increasingly more remote Anno Domini 1999, I was a freshman in college. And I read a book in French literature class that I somehow still remember rather well. It was the essay collection Mythologies by the twentieth-century French cultural critic
Catholic discussion of evolutionism did not end with the publication of Humani generis. Although it is not my intention to write a history of the three quarters of a century since publication of the encyclical, a few words about subsequent Catholic thought on the two issues that the encyclical addressed
I was a doctoral student when a friend passed on to me a second-hand copy of a book by the Belgian Benedictine Jean Déchanet, a monk of Saint-André de Bruges. Déchanet, born in 1906, was known to me as a medieval scholar. His work on William of Saint-Thierry, the chief
In 2010 Pope Benedict XVI visited the United Kingdom. Greg Bruke, then a journalist at Fox News, reported that during the Pope’s visit a young man could be seen protesting by himself in London carrying a sign made from a pizza box that read: “Drop the Filioque.” Photos of the
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Earlier this year, in the north-east of England, two men were given prison sentences for cutting down a tree. On the 28th September 2023, Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers destroyed a sycamore tree which stood in splendid isolation by a
What value does discussing medieval coronations, and the traditions of the Polish crown, have in the twenty-first century? Is it not merely an antiquarian interest in the past? An interest that has little influence today on the lives of the people, even in contemporary Poland. Is engaging with the coronation
He will swallow up death for ever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken (Isa 25:8). God is the one who will bring death to nothing. In