The Fessio Phenomenon
Father Joseph Fessio, S.J.: California Blackrobe By Cornelius Michael Buckley. S.J. Ignatius Press, 2024. Hardcover, 379 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Lee Oser. “Fessio.” The name has become a test. The first card the reviewer lays on the table will evoke a smile or a...
Seeing the True Presence
The Eucharist Is Really Jesus: How Christ’s Body and Blood Are The Key To Everything We Believe By Joe Heschmeyer. Catholic Answers Press, 2023. Paperback, 174 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. C.S. Lewis once observed that he believed in Christianity like...
Will You Also Go Away?
True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church By Francis X. Maier. Ignatius Press, 2024. Hardcover, 284 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Following the title page of Francis X. Maier’s True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church...
When Rulers Look in the Mirror
The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas By William McCormick, S.J. The Catholic University of America Press, 2022. Paperback, 288 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Thomas F.X. Varacalli. In the field of political philosophy, Saint Thomas...
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[F]or all their handwringing about the red-state barbarians at the gates, Chemerinsky and Gillman cannot or will not see what their own argument and their own evidence of student, faculty, and administrator behavior show to even a mildly attentive reader: The greatest enemies of