The resurrection difference -- The pity of Christ -- A river in Egypt: denying the undeniable -- Telling the truth -- Liturgical confusion: challenging reform -- Translating the Mass: the liturgical experts' long tassels -- More fascinating than fiction -- The canonization of Teresa of Calcutta -- The idea of a Catholic University fifty years after Land O' Lakes -- President Trump's Warsaw speech -- A populist election and its aftermath -- The tailors of Tooley Street: reflections on the Ivory Tower and reality -- Two Newmans and two Catholic springs -- Dignitas: the manners of humility -- The banners of Lepanto -- Luther looks at Islam -- The use of brains in a brainless time -- A misplaced grief: the Vatican and David Bowie -- The problem with pews -- A tale of two Georges -- The curate's egg: a reflection on Amoris Laetitia -- Looking down on Africa -- Persecution today in the lands of the epiphany -- Making dogma from unsettled science -- Mixing up the sciences of heaven and earth -- Tolerating terror -- The Paris horror: real and explicable -- The Pope's off-the-cuff remarks in Turin -- State education -- Advent: in my end is my beginning -- Pentecost and the prerequisites for true devotion -- Prophecy and prediction: best left to the professionals -- The Holy Spirit and the two stewards of justice -- On praising famous men -- The mindless iconoclasm of our age.
Summary
A series of essays about our society's collective anxiety and the importance of having faith in God granting us peace and hope beyond the day-to-day trials and tribulations.
