No Other Bulwark

I’m reminded of a bold assertion, made by my Tablet colleague Liel Liebovitz, on America magazine’s Jesuitical podcast: “The [Catholic] Church is the only — the last — remaining bulwark for human dignity and freedom…

A Master’s Blog

This past June, José Saramago died.  He was 87. Awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1998, he was the author of such novels as Blindness, The Gospel according to Jesus Christ, and The Year of the Death…