Opus Dei Exposed
My review of Gareth Gore’s engrossing exposé of Opus Dei in U.S. Catholic.
Tag: books
Carlo Rovelli on Reason and Faith
“From a theoretical point of view, the search for a compromise between reason and religion marks the evolution of Christian thought and nourishes the philosophy of the church fathers, from Saint Augustine to Saint Thomas. Seen from the point of view of a modern scientist, these efforts have a kind of desperate, tragic grandeur. Other… Continue reading Carlo Rovelli on Reason and Faith
Rebecca Bratten Weiss and The Gods We Have Eaten
It’s hard not to envy the experience and the deep reading of philosophy and literature which writer-farmer Rebecca Bratten Weiss brings to bear in the marvelous poems she’s been composing for almost a decade. A former adjunct professor of literature, Rebecca is the digital editor of U.S. Catholic (for whom I’ve written). Her articles and… Continue reading Rebecca Bratten Weiss and The Gods We Have Eaten
When Faith Meets Science…
He hopes that his book draws enough interest to justify the publicatioin of a second volume, where he could present topics he addressed in the third and fourth Italian volumes, which are currently used in courses at the master’s-degree level.
The Discovery of Jean Rhys
With thanks to the inimitable James Wood in the New Yorker. The books overlap enough to disclose a composite type: an outsider, a youngish Englishwoman of ambiguous ethnicity (“But you are English—or aren’t you?” Marya is asked), curiously unidentifiable by the traditional English markers of accent and education (“She was born in the West Indies… Continue reading The Discovery of Jean Rhys