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Real Persons

John F. Crosby

How to Know a Person:The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seenby david brooksrandom house, 320 pages, $30 David Brooks, an opinion columnist at the New York Times,...

Real Persons

John F. Crosby

How to Know a Person:The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seenby david brooksrandom house, 320 pages, $30 David Brooks, an opinion columnist at the New York...

Crime, Punishment, and Amoris Laetitia

John F. Crosby

In his recent article in Lโ€™Osservatore Romano, Rocco Buttiglione makes a valiant effort to explain the controversial chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia. He does not try to settle the...

Called by Him

John F. Crosby

In the Self’s Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine? by jean-luc marion? translated by jeffrey l. kosky stanford, 448 pages, $90 n Pascal spoke of the divide between the...

The Witness of Dietrich von Hildebrand

John F. Crosby

Now that the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project has been founded with a view to republishing the works of this great thinker and in some cases translating them from...

Newman on the Personal

John F. Crosby

There immediately follows a piece of vintage Newmanian satire. He imagines the division of mind that is bound to arise in Protestants who have become personally acquainted with individual...

Education and the Mind Redeemed

John F. Crosby

I The early Church father Tertullian asked a famous question, one that has been asked again and again in the history of the Church, and that I would like...