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letters Pius XIIs contested legacy COMMiSSiON & OMiSSiON That Pius XII was too silent and did too little to help the Jews during the Holocaust has now been accepted by most historians. Eamon...
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From the Editors A Meditation There comes a point, late in the new film The Mill and the Cross by the Polish director Lech Ma-jewski, when a dramatic question is asked (and fumbled) by a character...
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COLUMNIST Fr. Nonomen The Jingle Bell Mass A PASTORAL OPPORTUNITY LIKE NO OTHER A lmost every parish I know has a Jingle Bell Mass. It's the one celebrated late in the afternoon on Christmas...
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ARTICLE The Moment of Recognition Rembrandt & the Face of Jesus Bernard G. Prusak For a decade now, I have spent two days every fall discussing the story of the binding of Isaac in Genesis 22...
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GLORIA Glad, that night, of the metalled clubs when jackals cried on the hills and the dog snarled, they waited, shaggy under keffiyehs, the heavy coats rucked high for the wind, nibbling at...
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FICTION The Relic Thief Unagidon Although Italians were officially despised by the grownups in Paul's Irish family, everyone seemed to have at least one Italian best friend. His grandmother Jane,...
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SCREEN Richard Alleva Hide & Seek 'J. EDGAR' & 'THE SKIN I LIVE IN' The first thing to be said about J. Edgar, the biopic about the late FBI director, is that it is an unexpectedly forbearing,...
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BOOKS Gabriel Brownstein Curator of the Fantastic We Others New and Selected Stories Steven Millhauser Alfred A. Knopf, $27.95, 400 pp. Critics sometimes compare Steven Millhauser's work to...
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John Rose Duelling Dualisms Darwin's Pious Idea Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong Conor Cunningham Eerdmans, $34.99, 580 pp. Conor Cunningham's Darwin's Pious Idea is...
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Anthony J. Godzieba Shipwrecked? The Crisis of Authority in Catholic Modernity Edited by Michael J. Lacey and Francis Oakley Oxford University Press, $35, 381 pp. What counts as authentically...
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the last word Let There Be Light Lawrence S. Cunningham Although it is a matter of some dispute why Christians celebrate Christmas on December 25, it surely has something to do with the pagan...
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