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Karl Schmude

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  • The Animating Force of Religious Faith

    In his new book, 'Christians: The Urgent Case for Jesus in Our World', Greg Sheridan brings an astute reporter's eye to faith. In doing so he bears out T.S. Eliot’s definition of the Christian journalist as one who finds 'the topical excuse for writing about the permanent'   

    Nov 07 2021

    13 mins

  • Can God Return from Exile?

    At a time when Christianity is pictured so negatively, Greg Sheridan's new book offers important reminders of its comprehensive legacy to Western culture, highlighting the political significance of the idea of the individual, and a belief in universal human dignity that emanates from the Christian ennoblement of human life

    Mar 10 2019

    12 mins

  • Campion, Newman and the Intellectual Apostolate

    Edmund Campion and John Henry Newman can stake a large […]

    May 01 2016

    24 mins

  • Return to the Future

    Remembering Belloc by James V. Schall St Augustine’s Press, 2013, […]

    Apr 01 2015

    6 mins

  • Out of Africa

    Ten African Cardinals by Sally Ninham Connor Court, 2013, 367 […]

    Dec 01 2014

    6 mins

  • G.K. Chesterton and Spencer Tracy

    In their personal lives, the writer and the actor revealed qualities that connected them with ordinary people. One was a spirit of loyalty and concern for others, but it is the humility they shared that unites two men from very different backgrounds, each impervious to the temptations of fame

    Aug 31 2014

    36 mins