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LAST WORD Peace Sign A lesson from my father TIMOTHY P. SCHILLING In September 2021, I reported Dad missing. He’d been off the radar before, but this time when I asked around, we realized it...

'You'll Do Good' (September 2018)

LAST WORD 'You'll Do Good' Timothy P. Schilling Lately my heart has been troubled. I suddenly feel as if time is running out—but on what exactly? I find myself asking, "Why not finally be the...

The River Runs On (January 2016)

The River Runs On Norman Macleans Christian Tragedies Timothy P. Schilling Late one May night in 1938, residents of a south-side Chicago neighborhood heard sounds of a struggle beyond their...

A History of Loneliness (December 2015)

Timothy P. Schilling Priests as Pariahs A History of Loneliness John Boyne Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 325 pp. A quarter of the way through John Boyne’s novel A History of Loneliness, we...

Cross Purposes (May 2013)

THE LAST WORD Cross Purposes Timothy P Schilling Some years ago a Catholic friend shared with me an exchange he'd had with a Protestant acquaintance. The Protestant had pointed to a crucifix and...

Ash Wednesday (March 2013)

ASH WEDNESDAY I boiled my life down to the purest extract and watched it dry and flake away —Timothy P. Schilling Timothy P. Schilling serves on the staff of the Center for Parish...

Lanced (January 2013)

The Last Word Lanced Timothy P. Schilling Ah, 1999—those were the days. It was summertime and we were in Holland for our annual visit with my wife’s family. Normally I didn’t spend a lot of...

Robert Redford (January 2012)

Timothy P. Schilling The Way He Is Robert Redford The Biography Michael Feeney Callan Alfred A. Knopf, $29.95, 496 pp Because it is far too easy in life to end up embodying something other...

End of an Era (March 2011)

SHORT TAKES Timothy P. Schilling End of an Era THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LOUVAIN CLOSES It's both surprising and sad that a prominent national seminary, our oldest abroad, with a distinguished...

Spreading the News (September 2006)

Spreading the News A Report on Europe's New Evangelization ff~mothy P. Schilling g o0 T he church exists in order to evangelize," wrote Pope Paul VI in his 1975 apostolic exhortation,...

Turkey & the EU (September 2005)

Timothy P. Schilling Turkey & the EU HOW INCLUSIVE CAN EUROPE AFFORD TO BE? T hough continuity with his predecessor has been the norm so far, Pope Benedict XVI has already diverged from several...

The Shape of Our Despair (July 2005)

The Shape of Our Despair The Fiction of J oyce Carol Oates Timothy P. I s Joyce Carol Oates the Great American Novelist? Critics in the United States and Europe have called her a genius. The...

Intercommunion Now? (May 2005)

tm r ~a ops were listened to. Before the conclave, Cardinal Ratzinger had warned the cardinals of the "dictatorship of relativism." Johnstone smiles and acknowledges the tension. Yes, he...

Rome Journal (May 2005)

Seewald (God and the World, 2002), then Cardinal Ratzinger conceded that the church's message "seems to be coming from the past" and "from a quite different kind of life that no longer seems to...

Catholicism in Europe (January 2005)

Catholicism in Europe Hopeless or hopeful? Timothy P. T here was a time when American Catholic intellectuals took their lead from Europe, turning to the writers Bernanos, Mauriac, Greene,...

Catholic & political (June 2004)

Artificial contraception poses serious risks to women's health. Catholic spokesmen have been making this particular claim since the early years of the twentieth century. And yet the same...

Innundated (February 2004)

Timothy P. Schilling INNUNDATED Immigration & the Dutch or at least four decades, the Netherlands has been a progressive's dream. A highly developed welfare state provides health insurance and an...

Letter from Hooland (February 2003)

Timothy P. Schilling LETTER FRON HOLLAND Iraq & war through European eyes I live in a Dutch city where there aren't many other Americans, and I am often asked to account for the actions of my...

Overdue at the library (December 1999)

OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY Timothy P. Schilling I still remember clearly when I first noted the interesting relationship between our primary definitions of the word "conception." I was in my second...

Hoop Dreams (June 1998)

HOOP DREAMS Timothy P. Schilling red metal hoop presents a pretty clear target to a boy dribbling a ball on a driveway. The metal ring repeatedly answers his questions. No matter what...

Correspondence (May 1996)

CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors No to school vouchers Wrong, wrong, wrong! I am amazed that you have been seduced by voucher propaganda [editorial, April 5]. After all the rhetoric has died down,...

Schiltz, Michael E.

SCHILTZ, PATRICK J.

Schimieder, Edgar

Schindler, David L.

Schirber, Martin E.

Schirmer, Daniel B.

Schirmer, Gregory A.

Schivinn, Bonaventure

Schkade, David

Schlabach, Gerald W.

Schlader, Carole

Schlesinger, Arthur Jr.