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Henri De Lubac's "ressourcement" signified a return to the foundation, to the sources-a spiritual and intellectual return to a communion with Christianity at its most vital moments, which proposed to nourish, invigorate, and rejuvenate 20th-century Christ

I am glad that the saints continue to be an inspiration to writers and filmmakers. We shouldn't resent them trying to make great art with these holy lives. But as one sometimes "had to be there" to get the point of certain stories, it would seem that for

What then are the birds of the air, the devils who come and steal the seed away from our souls? Matthew 13: 18-23 takes us back to the parable of the sower that that we heard two Sundays ago, a story that contains several chapters within it, all full of l

More than ever, America is split between populist nationalism and left-wing internationalism, with little room in either ideology for anything like Wendell Berry's vision of local patriotic devotion. Whatever we make of his ruminations, with respect to th

Turning the pages of a volume of essays by Samuel Johnson, I felt at once that I had discovered a new friend, who shared with his admirer G.K. Chesterton the ability to make us see the everyday things of life with a new sense of wonder. The inimitable Dr.

Yes, we must fight and struggle for the ideal, but in the end the ultimate answers lie in God's atonement and love for us, and in our love and forgiveness for others who are just as implicated as we are. Wendell Berry is a bearer of that message in his bo

The debt Wendell Berry described is owed by everyone who has inherited something - a faith, a family, a school, a country - from people who are now gone and who are now responsible for handing it, intact and loved, to people yet to be born. That is the wh

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I

Most of the Inklings had already gone through one world war, and when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, they knew that their children-especially J.R.R. Tolkien's sons-would have to go through a second one. It was all quite depressing. In September

The most important element in European foreign relations throughout the 1920s and during the early 1930s was the desire at all costs to avoid another war. There was among European statesmen a widespread conviction that another war would be infinitely more