I was not going to like Michael Higgins’s new book, Stalking the Holy: The Pursuit of Saint-Making. I am a Catholic theologian interested in Catholic life, thought and spirituality, but the saint-making bureaucracy at the Vatican did not interest me at all. Ronald Knox, a well-known British Catholic intellectual, once said, “When you travel on an ocean…
From the archives
Between Words
Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness
Boredom as a Political Weapon
Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world