Articles by Fr. James V. Schall S.J.

A friend told me that she, her husband and her family were to spend time on the Mendocino coast in Northern California, where “it should be very cold and foggy, a refreshing change after D.C.!”

On May 13, 1964, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a letter to Colin Bailey about his unfinished story “The New ...

Aristotle, in book four of his “Ethics,” brings up a “minor” virtue with no “proper” name. In English, it is ...

The story is often told of Ulysses S. Grant’s response to persons around President Johnson who suggested putting Robert ...

If our favorite football team receives 150 yards in penalties, while our inept opponents receive a measly 10 yards, chances ...

In Cicero’s dialogue “On Old Age,” the great Roman statesman Cato tells us how he occupies his time once ...

Years ago, a friend, now dead for many years, gave me a copy of “The Letters of Evelyn Waugh.” I ...

The day after Easter, I was rereading Benedict XVI’s new and brilliant encyclical, Spe Salvi. I have three different ...

The Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) spoke on the BBC Welsh Home Service on the 29th of October ...

Recently, as my patient students know, I was sidelined with a bout of pneumonia. Relax, I am not going to ...