Pope Francis and Conclave 2025: Still waiting for a Third-Millennium Pope
While it is true that our Catholic Faith is timeless, the Catholic Church seems to be stalled in the disasterous 20th Century.
While it is true that our Catholic Faith is timeless, the Catholic Church seems to be stalled in the disasterous 20th Century.
Our musical adventures this month will take us through the twenthieth-century to contemporary times. You need not fear. Despite the temporary triumph of cacophony for about half a century, beautiful music was written even under the siege of the avant-garde and is still being created today. I begin with the great good news that one of … Read more
On a June evening in 1979 I was having a drink on a small balcony outside a sixth-floor apartment in downtown Warsaw with a very civilized, elderly Polish intellectual, a retired mathematics professor who had taken a degree at Cambridge between the two world wars and spoke a refined, witty, patrician English. Inside the apartment … Read more