May/June 2007The Spirit of the Liturgy
Sample Articles from Issue
A Juggler on a TightropeBenedict XVI and the “Tridentine” QuestionBy Father Thomas Kocik
Sacred Music and the Hermeneutic of ContinuityBy Michael E. Lawrence
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Lest We Forget: Remembering the Realities of Communismby Joseph Pearce
In these days in which the Obama administration is flexing its big government muscles in the service of secular fundamentalism, it is as well to remember where such a line of reasoning often leads. With this in mind, I'm posting a thought-provoking e-mail from Kirk Kramer.
Monarch of All I Surveyby Sophia Mason
Reading over a writer’s account of her brief acquaintance with the late Christopher Hitchens, it struck me that the first problem of an atheist is that he is bound to be a lonely person. Hitchens, of course, was temperamentally lonely: so irascible by nature, so little prone to give his fellow men credit for virtue, that he was bound to isolation. Those whom he got along best with seem to have shared his critical personality and, even more tellingly, seem to have spent little time with him. A dedicated iconoclast is a dangerous person to befriend.
C.S. Lewis and Friendsby Joseph Pearce
Further to my post about Shadowlands, I thought I'd share this e-mail just received from the organisers of an annual conference on C. S. Lewis and Friends, at which I've been privileged to speak in the past. Admirers of Lewis and Tolkien might want to consider attending.