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
I write musical theater. The trouble with saying Broadway is that it has a pejorative context.—Stephen Sondheim There is a basic question about Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess that has haunted American musical theater. What is Porgy? Is it an opera, operetta, or musical? Most productions and editions of the work
If you are a woman scholar—or, dare I say, simply a lover of nineteenth-century literature regardless of gender—there are probably two characters you have fancied yourself to be at some point in your life: Jo March, Louisa May Alcott’s plucky, strong-willed heroine of Little Women, or Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen’s
The story of Robert Francis Prevost is at once commonplace and fascinating, even uncanny, precisely because it is so very much the story of a mid-century boy of the midwestern United States, born into a middle-class family that lived in the middle of a postwar suburban development. The times of
Over the past year, I have had conversations with presidents and mission officers through the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, with admissions directors in the National Catholic College Admissions Association, with faculty and staff at places like St. John’s University and Fairfield University, and with boards of trustees and
On December 9, 1965, 45 million Americans tuned in to CBS to watch the premiere of A Charlie Brown Christmas. The half-hour animated Christmas special has aired every year since then. As A Charlie Brown Christmas turns 60 this year, it is worth asking why this program, with its unapologetically