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Articles Written by: JOSEPH BOTTUM
Timothy Dolan came to town with a hammer in his hand. Of course, it wasn’t really much of hammer: just a little tappity-tap kind of thing, a tack hammer with a bright blue head, which he used it to rap on the door of St. Patrick’s Cathedral as part of ...
From JOSEPH BOTTUM,
New York Post,
8 Nov 2009
R. Scott Appleby is embarrassed by the vulgarity of the protests out at Notre Dame. And perhaps he should be—for those protests are pretty vulgar. “People are weary of it,” the Notre Dame history professor told the Washington Post. “I certainly feel ...
From JOSEPH BOTTUM,
First Things,
15 May 2009
Note: The following is a preview article from the June/July issue.
R.R. Reno interviews First Things’ editor Joseph Bottum on the situation at Notre Dame.
We all knew this fight was coming. The Catholic Church and the Catholic colleges have been ...
From JOSEPH BOTTUM,
First Things,
13 May 2009
The April issue of First Things is now on salea set of tributes and memorials that mark the death of the magazine’s founder, Richard John Neuhaus. Among the many fine pieces is Fr. Neuhaus’ unpublished essay, “The One True Church,” together with ...
From JOSEPH BOTTUM,
First Things,
20 Mar 2009
Our great, good friend is gone.
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus slipped away January 8, shortly before 10 oclock, at the age of seventy-two. He never recovered from the weakness that sent him to the hospital the day after Christmas, caused by a series of side ...
From JOSEPH BOTTUM,
First Things,
9 Jan 2009
Whatever else it is, the pro-life movement of the last thirty-plus years is one of the most massive and sustained expressions of citizen participation in the history of the United States. Since the 1960s, citizen participation and the remoralizing of ...
From JOSEPH BOTTUM,
First Things,
24 Dec 2008
Its almost impossible not to know how it opens. Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol has been filmed at least forty-two times and dramatized for the stage in dozens of versionsthe ...
From JOSEPH BOTTUM,
First Things,
23 Dec 2008
There was a woman screaming on Park Avenue, flecks of saliva spraying from her mouth as she raged into her cell phone, Its not my fault. Over and over, like the high-pitched squeal of a power saw cutting bricks: Its not my fault and a run of foul names, ...
From JOSEPH BOTTUM,
First Things,
22 Dec 2008
is holding its annual fundraising drive. As Richard John Neuhaus writes, I well know that some of our readers have very limited means. Even a small gift is a real sacrifice. Others, however, have been blessed with very considerable means. To all I say: ...
From JOSEPH BOTTUM,
First Things,
17 Dec 2008
In his long life, he wrote more than 700 articles and twenty-two books, and it is hard to imagine how anyone today can fill the roles he played in the Catholic world and American public life. As the disease that took his life progressed, his final ...
From JOSEPH BOTTUM,
First Things,
12 Dec 2008
