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ARTICLE Hearing Homilies Paul J. Griffiths How preaching and teaching are different At almost every moment of the Mass there is vocalization. Someone, or everyone, speaks or sings. There may...

Letter from Helsinki (September 2023)

PAUL J. GRIFFITHS On the Edge of Empires Letter from Helsinki arrive in Helsinki on June 18 for a six-week stay. I’m close to the end of a book I’ve been working on for more than a...

Jon Fosseâ€™s Septology (April 2023)

CRITIC AT LARGE PAUL J. GRIFFITHS An I Brought to Rest The theology of Jon Fosse’s ‘Septology’ There’s an old debate among Christian theologians about the life of the world to...

Shirley Hazzard's aesthetic sensibility (April 2022)

The Exquisitist Paul J. Griffiths Shirley Hazzard’s stories show all that aesthetic sensibility can do—and all it can’t. Shirley Hazzard’s writing has been for me a constant source of...

Blaise Pascal & the magisterium (May 2020)

ARTICLE Under Pressure Paul J. Griffiths The weight of the magisterium lay heavy on Blaise Pascal. Instead of crushing him, it clarified his thinking— and ours. “Magisterium” is a Latin word...

Baron Wenkheimâ€™s Homecoming (November 2019)

BOOKS The Way Life Comes at Us PAUL J. GRIFFITHS BARON WENCKHEIM'S HOMECOMING LASZLO KRASZNAHORKAI TRANSLATED BY OTTILIE MULZET New Directions, $29.95, 576 pp. Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a...

Selves Are Not Food (August 2019)

Selves Are Not Food Christine Korsgaard’s Case for Animal Rights Paul J. Griffiths In her new book, Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals (Oxford University Press, $24.95,...

Secularism and Cosmopolitanism (May 2019)

BOOKS Paul J. Griffiths No Neutral Ground Secularism and Cosmopolitanism Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics Etienne Balibar Columbia University Press, $28, 288 pp. There are...

The Idolatry of Home (August 2018)

BOOK ESSAY The Idolatry of Home Brexit & the View from Somewhere Paul J. Griffiths The Brexit referendum of June 2016 has become a prism through which political passions are endlessly refracted....

Cambodia Diaries (July 2018)

Paul J. Griffiths Cambodia Diaries On March 12 I spend most of the day at Tuol Sleng, also known as S-21, in Phnom Penh. This is the principal place where the Khmer Rouge interrogated and tortured...

A Life, Not a Grammar (March 2018)

REVIEW ESSAY A Life, Not a Grammar The Limits of Theology Paul J. Griffiths The Light of Christ An Introduction to Catholicism Thomas Joseph White, OP Catholic University of America Press,...

To the University, with Love (June 2017)

LAST WORD To the University, with Love Paul J. Griffiths Since 1983 I've been on the faculties of various universities in the United States: two public land-grant systems (Wisconsin, Illinois),...

Icons Of Devastation (September 2015)

Icons of Devastation The Poetry of Paul Celan Paul J. Griffiths Paul Celan’s poetry is, by most accounts, among the great postwar European literary achievements. George Steiner appeals to it as...

Gratitude (August 2014)

Paul J. Griffiths No, Thank Him Gratitude An Intellectual History Peter J. Leithart Baylor University Press, $49.95, 340 pp. Gratitude is difficult to practice, and even more difficult to...

The Highest Poverty (January 2014)

Paul J. Griffiths Share & Share Alike The Highest Poverty Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life Giorgio Agamben Translated by Adam Kotsko Stanford University Press, $17.95, 157 pp. What does it mean...

Fellow Travelers? (October 2012)

Fellow Travelers? Four Atheists Who Don't Hate Religion Paul J. Griffiths Hazel Motes, the protagonist of Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood (1952), tries to found a new church, one without...

A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear (March 2012)

Paul J. Griffiths Called to a Halt A Case for Irony Jonathan Lear With commentary by Cora Diamond, Christine M. Korsgaard, Richard Moran, and Robert A. Paul Harvard University Press, $29.95,...

Love'S Work (June 2011)

Paul J. Qriffiths The Theater of Desire Love's Work Gillian Rose New York Review Books, $14, 176 pp. Gillian Rose was born into a secular Jewish family in England in 1947, and died there in...

"Saving God, Surviving Death" (October 2010)

Paul J. Qriffiths Eternal Life for Atheists Saving God Religion after Idolatry Mark Johnston Princeton University Press, $24.95, 198 pp. Surviving Death Mark Johnston Princeton University...

In the Red (January 2010)

Books Paul J. Griffiths In the Red Sin A History Gary A. Anderson Yale University Press, $30, 235 pp. This wonderful and surprising book is a historical and exegetical...

The Liturgical Drowse: The habits of faith (February 2009)

When I’m at Mass, I often find myself at the edge of sleep and occasionally right over it into a twentysecond burst of shallow, eye-closing, neck-relaxing sleep. This can happen during the...

The Really Hard Problem (April 2008)

Commonweal. April 11, 2008 Paul J. Griffiths Material Guy The Really Hard Problem Meaning in a Material World Owen Flanagan MIT Press, $27.95, 288 pp. P hilosophers of mind...

The Abstinence Teacher (December 2007)

20 Commonweal . December 21, 2007 respect, his arguments are heavily indebted to the work of Thomas Aquinas, who recognized the natural inclination of human beings “to exert special energy...

The Ways of Judgment by Oliver O'Donovan (March 2006)

it is, and with a shot of mischief. Bloom tosses off some such aper~u on every other page. Of all the characters caged and ques- tioned in these pages, only Yahweh him- self, finally, escapes...

A Well in Togo (October 2005)

The Last Word A Well in Togo Paul y. riffiths eq o I spent two weeks this past summer in Togo, a country that most Americans (this one included) would have to look up in an atlas before...

Magic Seeds (February 2005)

Paul y. 9riffiths The Center Does Not Hold Magic Seeds V. S. Naipaul Alfred A. Knopf, $25,280 pp. T his is V. S. Naipaul's fourteenth novel, and likely to be his last. He says he no longer...

RIGHT, LEFT & NONE OF THE ABOVE (October 2004)

Paul J. Griffiths W ith less than a month to go, I'm planning not to vote in this November's presidential election. I'm not happy about this situation: it's rare that a day goes by without the...

The Unexpected Way by Paul Williams (January 2003)

On honeymoon The Unexpected Way On Converting from Buddhism to Catholicism Paul Williams Continuum/T & T Clark. $22.95, 264 pp. Paul J. Griffiths The blood of the martyrs, the old saying has...

One True God (November 2001)

GOD IS A SOCIOLOGIST OneTrue God Historical Consequences of Monotheism Rodney Stark Frmcetion University Press, $24.95, 301 pp. Paul J. Griffiths________ Rodney Stark is a widely...

Inventing Catholic Tradition (March 2001)

PRACTICING CATHOLICS Inventing Catholic Tradition TerrenceW.Tilley orbisBooks $24, 200 pp* Paul J. Griffiths_________ Terrence Tilley's main purpose in this book is to develop and defend...

GRIFFY, TIMOTHY A.

Grimes, Robert L.

GRIMLEY, REV. BERNARD

Grimond, Jo

Grisez, Germain G.

Griswold, Alfred Whitney

GROGAN, JOHN

Grol-Prkopczyk, Regina

Gromer, Crystal

GRONDELSKI, DR. JOHN M.

Groot, Jan de

Gros, Jeffrey