“People Will Do Anything”—Dr. Zhivago and the Human Condition Carlo Ponti’s epic classic Dr. Zhivago premiered in the United States sixty years ago this month. For many, it is a love story about a doctor-poet and “his” Lara. It’s more: it’s a study of the soul of man. From the very beginning, the film warns…

Modern Western culture speaks often of inclusion, compassion, and solidarity, yet there is one group it feels remarkably free to shame and ignore: its own sons. Teenage boys and young men in the West have been told for years that they are a problem to be solved rather than a people to be formed. Schools,…

Above: the interior of Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le mura, built by Pope St. Damasus, before the bombing of 1943. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 Damasus was a Spaniard, a man of eminence and of great learning in…