Tag: Religion
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Favorite Books of 2018
Four of my favorite reads from 2018
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Favorite Books of 2017
Six of my favorite reads from 2017
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Gethsemane
Thoughts after the election of Trump
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Father Joseph’s Folly
Some gems from Aldous Huxley’s “Grey Eminence” (1941)
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Confessions
Some wisdom from St. Augustine
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Favorite Books of 2015
A dozen book recommendations
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Pope Francis’s Critique of Capitalism and the Quest for the Good Life
Last month, FT Alphaville’s Izabella Kaminska picked up a potent critique of free-market capitalism from Pope Francis’s first Apostolic Exhortation.1 I must confess, I’m not a regular reader of papal exhortations—indeed, papal pronouncements of any variety tend not to make my “to read” list2—but the snippets Kaminska selected gave me pause.