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1 week ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Gary Saul Morson |Anthony Esolen |Henry Olsen
Download Subscriber Only Subscribe “We shall know nothing,” wrote Albert Camus, “until we know whether we have the right to kill our fellow men.” Andrew Klavan cites this comment in his splendid new book, The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness. The kingdom of Cain is the world in which humanity has dwelled since Adam and Eve’s eldest son, the first person born after the fall, committed the first murder. Violent crime has haunted us ever since.
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1 week ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Anthony Esolen |Paul Gottfried |Gary Saul Morson
Download Subscriber Only Subscribe Death holds the ultimate mystery for human beings, and consequently the question how best to live presents one with a darkness hardly less difficult to fathom. A good death is of course the fitting end to a good life—though Christians believe that deathbed conversion can absolve one of a life badly spent, as in Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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1 week ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Daniel Mahoney |Gary Saul Morson |Anthony Esolen |Martha Bayles
Download Subscriber Only Subscribe Winston S. Churchill will remain worthy of study and admiration wherever true greatness is celebrated.
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1 month ago | 
catholiceducation.org | Anthony Esolen |Msgr. Charles Fink |Theodore Dalrymple |Jeff Mirus
Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504, Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. I am relieved to find that Pope Francis has refrained from saying that someday we may be conferring, or pretending to confer, Holy Orders upon women. It keeps alive the possibility that the churches East and West may reunite. It averts an inevitable and devastating schism.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
spectator.org | Anthony Esolen
Without leisure, man cannot think. But leisure is not the same as time away from the workplace. The Soviet man had no leisure in his dingy little flat, because the Soviet demands came to penetrate the mind, and eyes were watching and ears were listening, so that, even if you could trust your own children, which by no means was a sure thing, you could not trust the man in the dingy flat across from yours. A fleet and friendly smile might be but the bright flash of a knife.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |Anthony Esolen
Researchers underscore link between decline of marriage, plummeting fertility rates By Daniel Payne for CNA null / Credit: KieferPix/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jan 10, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Researchers in Canada are highlighting the link that declining marriage rates are playing in the overall decline in fertility rates in North America and around the world. In their 2024 book “I…Do?
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Anthony Esolen
The newly appointed archbishop of Washington, D.C., Robert McElroy, says that the Church has learned more about human sexuality since the days of St. Paul and that, armed with this knowledge, we can now interpret Paul’s strictures against homosexual behavior as applying only to its abusive forms in ritual prostitution and pederasty but not to people who are committed to loving one another till death should part them.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
crisismagazine.com | Anthony Esolen
The cardinal of Chicago, Blase Cupich, has issued a directive to demand that parishioners in the archdiocese not kneel to receive Holy Communion, on the grounds that doing so interrupts the flow of the procession and calls attention to the individual.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Anthony Esolen
Did You Know? Why the Mighty Mississippi Was Once Named ‘River of the Immaculate Conception’, by Jonah McKeownDecember 9, 2024 By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine, Dec. 9, 2024Dr. Anthony Esolen is the author of 28 books on literature, culture, and the Christian life, whose most recent work is In the Beginning Was the Word: An Annotated Reading of the Prologue of John.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
crisismagazine.com | Anthony Esolen
The Vatican has recently approved of some considerable alterations of the Novus Ordo celebrated in the Mexican diocese of Chiapas. These alterations are put forward as springing from immemorial Mayan traditions. The controversy leads me to think again about what it means to have any kind of culture at all, especially as against the phenomena of the masses, which bid fair to make the world into one great Nowhere. How can you tell Nowhere from Somewhere?
