The Animating Force of Religious Faith

In his new book, 'Christians: The Urgent Case for Jesus in Our World', Greg Sheridan brings an astute reporter's eye to faith. In doing so he bears out T.S. Eliot’s definition of the Christian journalist as one who finds 'the topical excuse for writing about the permanent'   

Karl Schmude

Nov 07 2021

13 mins

Can God Return from Exile?

At a time when Christianity is pictured so negatively, Greg Sheridan's new book offers important reminders of its comprehensive legacy to Western culture, highlighting the political significance of the idea of the individual, and a belief in universal human dignity that emanates from the Christian ennoblement of human life

Karl Schmude

Mar 10 2019

12 mins

Campion, Newman and the Intellectual Apostolate

Edmund Campion and John Henry Newman can stake a large […]

Karl Schmude

May 01 2016

24 mins

Return to the Future

Remembering Belloc by James V. Schall St Augustine’s Press, 2013, […]

Karl Schmude

Apr 01 2015

6 mins

Out of Africa

Ten African Cardinals by Sally Ninham Connor Court, 2013, 367 […]

Karl Schmude

Dec 01 2014

6 mins

G.K. Chesterton and Spencer Tracy

In their personal lives, the writer and the actor revealed qualities that connected them with ordinary people. One was a spirit of loyalty and concern for others, but it is the humility they shared that unites two men from very different backgrounds, each impervious to the temptations of fame

Karl Schmude

Aug 31 2014

36 mins