Catholic Exchange

The Weekend Read

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• Sunday, May 13th, 2012
• Daniel McInerny

In one of the essays from her collection, Mystery and Manners, Flannery O’Connor cites a story by Caroline Gordon (1895-1981), a Catholic convert and friend of O’Connor’s who is sadly too often neglected when the roll call of great Catholic… Read More

Of Female Bondage

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• Monday, April 23rd, 2012
• Carolyn Moynihan

Here’s something strange. Just when you thought women had cast off the last of their chains, it turns out that they are rushing headlong back into bondage. Female enthusiasm for a sadomasochistic “romance” called Fifty Shades of Grey has seen… Read More

The Weekend Read

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• Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
• Daniel McInerny

I find that I want to enjoy contemporary literary fiction much more than I actually do. Too many literary novels have I started and then set aside because, whatever the brilliance of the writing, there simply was not enough of… Read More

The Weekend Read

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• Sunday, April 1st, 2012
• Daniel McInerny

With Palm Sunday today we begin Holy Week, and so my thoughts for The Weekend Read turn to works that will aid contemplation during these most sacred days of the Church year…

My wife just finished reading Fr. Walter J.… Read More

Adam and Eve After the Pill

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• Monday, March 26th, 2012
• Paul Adams

This book could hardly be more timely. The Obama Administration’s birth control mandate may be a matter of religious liberty and the First Amendment, but it has also opened up the questions about contraception and the sexual revolution that have… Read More

The Weekend Read

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• Sunday, March 25th, 2012
• Daniel McInerny

 
In one of the more perceptive passages in an extraordinarily perceptive book, G.K. Chesterton, in his Charles Dickens (1906), observes that our “modern attraction to short stories is not an accident of form; it is the sign of a… Read More

Will Rascals Defend Our Civilization…and What Books Will They Read?

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• Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
• William Fahey

He faces execution each day.  Seven days a week, his jury of peers votes unanimously for capital punishment.  The judge’s hand is typically stayed.  Mercy reigns because the accused shows signs of improvement.  Perhaps, this little boy will one day… Read More

Why the West is Best–A Review

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• Monday, February 6th, 2012
• Robert Spencer

One principal reason why the Islamic jihad is advancing with such confidence around the world today is because its chief competitor, the West, has lost its nerve. The iron and unquestionable dogma of multiculturalism has eaten away at its self-confidence and left only a relativism that walks to the brink of excusing genocide. Instead of defending its principles of liberal democracy and attempting to convince the Islamic world of their virtue and utility, the U.S. and Europe appear to stand for no principle more noble or compelling than majority rule