2000-06-14
Date:
Wednesday, June 14, 2000
The Epic in the Ordinary
The artist Jacob Lawrence died in Seattle on June 9. Reading his obituary in the New York Times, I looked up at the poster over my desk announcing a 1992...
'Thinking' Catholics
A few months ago, I read a wonderful story ("The Perfect Child," London Sunday Telegraph, March 5) about a woman in England named Caroline Armstrong-Jones. The...
Structures of Deceit
When America’s most prominent Catholic intellectual writes a scathing indictment of his church, it’s news. Whether it’s old news or not...
The cost of democracy
Newt Gingrich Republicanism is not dead. Last month the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill that would eliminate the estate, or...
