The Problem of Pain: Why Was God AWOL During the Holocaust?
“Pain is the only evil I know,” says the worldly Doctor Core to the priest in Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s…
Do the Dead Come Back and Watch the Living? On Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
by Emma Warner
Every reader loves a good ghost story. And that is why Daphne du Maurier’s Romantic-Gothic novel, Rebecca has thrilled readers since its publication…
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes by Mother Goose
There is a gravestone in Boston’s Granary Burying Ground that legend purports marks the resting place of Mother Goose. Now, whether…
Heart to Heart: Newman on the Laity
No Catholic figure, since St. Thomas Aquinas, has matched the creative mind of John Henry Newman. But if he is…
Coincidentally: Latitudes and Attitudes
The Reverend Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) lived in an age that is commonly caricatured as one of beef and ale and…
A Just War Theory of Homeschooling
Given the increasing popularity of homeschooling among faithful Catholics, it is vital that those who practice it — or are thinking…
Wartime Morality in Ambrose Bierce’s “A Horseman in the Sky”
The extant portion of the six-mile long Civil War front at Cold Harbor, Virginia is small enough to explore in an…
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen: A Tale of Resurrection
Just as baptism and burial are seldom associated with one another, neither are a duckling and the Resurrection. The interconnectivity of…
Shining in the Sun
A pre-publication review of Theological Cautions — A Doctrinal Analysis of the Church in France and Elsewhere by Father Paul Toinet, translated from the…
The House of Usher & the House of Poe: Celebrating 175 Years of Horror
Edgar Allan Poe. Enigmatic. Eccentric. Erratic. Melancholic. Alcoholic. Neurotic. But above all else, Fantastic. Throughout his 40 tormented years of…
