Volume 4, Issue 1

4.1 – Spring 2008 – Table of Contents

– Opinions –
When I First Met Bonhoeffer
by Jim Wallis
On an Authentic Christian “Worldview”: The Essays of Hilaire Belloc
by Jordan Teti ‘08
The Latin Mass: Progress Toward Unity of the Church
by Roger Waite ‘10
Demographic Winter
by Peter Syski ‘08
The Christian Aesthetic: A Higher Inspiration for Art
by Christopher B. Lacaria ‘09

– Features -

Caritas and Politics: The… more »

When I First Met Bonhoeffer

When I first met Dietrich Bonhoeffer, through reading his books as a young seminarian, he explained the world of faith to me. This young German theologian who was executed by the Nazis for his opposition to Hitler helped me to understand the difficult religious experiences I had known in America.
I had just come back to… more »

On an Authentic Christian “Worldview”

The Essays of Hilaire Belloc
A peculiar thrill of life is opening an old book that has hardly been read. What wisdom contained therein has found a home in so few readers? Why has fate chosen me for the discovery? On an early spring day, twenty-three years ago, the last Harvard student carried away Hilaire Belloc’s… more »

The Latin Mass

Progress Toward Unity of the Church
In junior year of high school, I enjoyed the peculiar but heartening experience of attending Mass with two friends early in the morning before our Advanced Placement calculus exam. One was Catholic, the other a Protestant of Calvinist temperament. We had a particularly incompetent math teacher that year and by… more »

Demographic Winter

“E-S-A-U-P-H-J-M-B-C, spells “family” in the Syski household. This odd 10-letter sequence does not sound like any word in the English language (or in any other, for that matter) that I’ve ever encountered, but it has important meaning for us: it stands for the names of my nine siblings and me-Emily, Stefan, Andrew, Ursula, Peter, Helen,… more »

The Christian Aesthetic

A Higher Inspiration for Art
Travelling to Europe is like travelling back in time: to a fairy-tale world of castles, cathedrals, and cobblestone. Unlike America, Europe has a long history, monuments of triumphs recently gained and ruins of glories long faded, and, as such, constant reminders of the way things used to be.
Americans have no such… more »

Caritas and Politics

The Philosophy of Friendship
“It is not in human nature to be indifferent to political power; and if the price men have to pay for it is the sacrifice of friendship, they think their treason will be thrown into the shade by the magnitude of the reward. A man, then, who has shown a firm, unshaken,… more »