Vanity Fair

“Do Not Trouble Deaf Heaven With Your Bootless Cries”

Christopher Hitchens, it seems, is dying of cancer. And he asks, in an article penned for October’s Vanity Fair, that you do not pray for him. This is probably not news to many of you, if not most. I do not follow the man’s career, and am in fact only vaguely aware of him as … Read more

Friday Free-for-All: September 3

A few links to kick off the long holiday weekend: Are Christian and Hindu villages in Pakistan being deliberately flooded? Some say water is being diverted from wealthy agricultural estates and wiping out the villages of poor people nearby. The Sarah Palin profile in Vanity Fair this week has been taking heavy fire for its … Read more

A Portrait of Dietrich von Hildebrand

In this Crisis Magazine classic, Thomas Howard sketches the life and work of Dietrich von Hildebrand — often considered a 20th century Doctor of the Church.    The name Dietrich von Hildebrand is not, perhaps, as well known as it should be among intelligent and literate Catholics — or, for that matter, among Christians of … Read more

A Note on the Dark Night

For a time last fall, the press, and therefore to some extent the public, was briefly yet intensely occupied with the publication of some letters of Mother Teresa. Readers of this column will know of these letters, of course. The small Albanian nun had never supposed that they would be made public, since they had … Read more

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