Francis Oakley’s memoir about higher education emphasizes “the lifelong pursuit of liberal learning”—education through engagement with those who disagree with you.
The late Fr. Ted Hesburgh transformed the University of Notre Dame into a leading institution. A new book tendentiously ignores key aspects of his life and work.
In his work, the late historian John Lukacs embodied a Christian humanism, one that ideologues on both the left and right did their best to bury. He will be missed.
A lot of people fancy themselves history buffs, obsessing over names, dates, and numbers. But facts aren’t narratives. And history can’t be learned from a phone.
The veneration of relics is a hard thing for many Catholics of this time and culture to wrap their minds around. But the practice is humanizing, not superstitious.
The idea of religious liberty was not simply the product of the Enlightenment. It has ancient origins, going back to early Christians suffering persecution in Rome.
