2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (255+ words) Answer: The best restaurant in Charlottesville is wherever Robert is cooking tonight. But perhaps that’s not so curious after all, for Robert’s culinary genius embodied important dimensions of the man. He was a loyal son of New Orleans, where he…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (221+ words) During all the years of our friendship, neither of us ever engaged in even covert proselytizing. We were constantly discussing what our two respective traditions have in common, while never losing sight of what divides them. We will miss him....

7+ mon, 3+ day ago   (160+ words) No doubt many people will offer their own reflections on the life of Archbishop Fulton Sheen now that the Vatican has approved his beatification. I offer these reflections on some lesser-known aspects of the life of this man of exceptional…...

6+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (265+ words) Astute observers will also note that First Things has so far launched two topical newsletters: the Fourth Watch pertaining to Catholicism, and the Protestant Mind. Which means the time is ripe for a newsletter on Judaism to complete the trifecta....

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (295+ words) imagined itself the world’s greatest deliberative body, U.S. senator Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) was…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (725+ words) More than sixteen years ago, on the morning of his installation Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, an ebullient (when was he not?) Archbishop Timothy Dolan greeted me at full volume (when did he not?), “You will like…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (456+ words) We welcome letters to the­ editor. Letters appear two issues after the article to which they are responding. Letters under three hundred words are preferred, and they may be edited for length and clarity. Letters responding to ­articles published in…...