Editor’s Commentary
With 2023 behind us and the new year opening for a great beginning, it is with pleasure that I get to announce to our readers that we…
The Lion Gate
Sensuous hills of barren bush carpeted with almond stones where soldiers marched important tunes, once in armors bronze. The same steps and crumbs beneath my soles, stamped…
What We’re Reading
Joshua Zeitz, Lincoln’s God. Abraham Lincoln’s religious beliefs are always something of an anomaly. Some people, very deceitfully and misleadingly, like to parade Lincoln was an “unbeliever,”…
The Thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas: More Than Plato and Aristotle
When I first opened Dr. Sebastian Morello’s monograph, The World as God’s Icon: Creator and Creation in the Platonic Thought of Thomas Aquinas (Angelico Press, 2020), I…
Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy and Its Significance for a Catholic University
In The Australian, July 22-23, 2023, there was an article by John Carroll titled Death of the Humanities. Carroll began by observing that in some American universities,…
Hemingway and Me: Or How I Learned to Love Hemingway and Stop Worrying About His Hopelessness
I did not always like Ernest Hemingway. In some ways I still don’t. Among the post-Great War American writers, I consider F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck…
Abraham and Isaac
I go out now, to kill my chosen son, He who has given him so takes away His promise, orders that completely stun My soul, yet God’s…
The Ineffable
My mouth is dry, drawn, and hot, Strained from attempts to utter Words that man cannot — Though my bosom feels a flutter; For I have seen…
How To Make a Political Extremist
Today, the word extremist in connection with politics is used frequently to a point where it has lost all of its prior meaning, and it is now…
The Hope of Edith Stein
One reason Edith Stein continues to attract so many followers, indeed the reason she has attracted me to her teachings, is because she addressed issues of timeless…
Terror and Memory
Manfred Henningsen was born in 1938 in Flensburg, Germany, and he grew up in post-war Germany. He studied in West Berlin, before the Wall was built, and…
Poetry and the Permanent Things
In recent years the art of poetry has received nearly as many eulogies and obituaries as the most recent mid-tier TV celebrity to cross the bar. Autopsies…
