At the beginning of his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope ­Francis speaks of “an episode in the life of St. Francis ...

Who is our Odysseus? Or more precisely, who is the most ­Odyssean hero of American film? Matt Damon’s mopey trauma patient?

We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in ...

It used to be that if you died horribly and honorably and happened to be a person of note, your legacy was secure. Amelia Earhart, John F. Kennedy, and Kurt Cobain were served well by their untimely ...

Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New York Times in June. The Texas State Board of Education had just approved a required reading list for K–12 ...

In a life of reading, there are special times of wonder and delight. Books come into your hands that address your central concerns and discuss matters you’ve long pondered. But they do so in fresh and ...

It used to be that if you died horribly and honorably and happened to be a person… ...

Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen seem to have had little in common. She favored rhinestones; he wore… UncategorizedPeter LawlerOn the Square ...

On Tuesday, September 29th, Lionel Shriver will read from her short story “The Cello,” published in the fall issue of Portico. Among her literary achievements, Shriver won the 2005 Orange Prize for ...

The memories are still vivid, even though it was a long time ago. Having been born in 1956, I’m just old enough to remember the confusing and tumultuous era of “the changes” that came after the Second ...

During the fall semester of 2013, I began to teach a new course here at Yale: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Even though the course had no track record (and therefore no student evaluations), ...

I recently lectured in Rome on the topic of the Antichrist. The Antichrist interests me for several reasons, mostly because nobody else is talking about it—which, for most of Christian history, would ...