I’ve just received the page proofs for the next issue of StAR from the graphic designer. Here’s a sneak preview:

The theme is “History Revisited” and it features some of the finest writers alive today, including Thomas Howard, Peter Milward S.J., Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Louis Markos, and a host of others. Highlights of the next issue include the following:

The Jesuit scholar Peter Milward on “The Ideal of Christendom: Revisiting History”, a panoramic overview of history and its meaning.

The indefatigable and prolific Louis Markos surveys a similar panoramic vision of history in his article on Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man: “From Cavemen to Christians: G. K. Chesterton’s Précis of History”.

Gwen Adams praises “The Madonna of Nevers: A Priceless Jewel from the Rubble of History”.

We revisit history with Pope Benedict XVI, especially in relation to the Holy Father’s analysis of the impact of nominalism and the ideas of Francis Bacon.

Father Dwight Longenecker devotes his regular film column to “Story and History: The Interpretation of Facts in Film”.

James Bemis continues his survey of the Vatican’s list of 45 “great films” with a review of Louis Malle’s great film, Au Revoir les Enfants.

Christian LeBlanc revisits the horrors of World War One, seeing it through the prism of the art it inspired, in “Bloody Wipers: War Revisited by Art”.

In his regular column, “The Sword of the Spirit”, Father Benedict Kiely condemns the rise of vulgarity and calls for “A Return to Civility”.

Regular columnist Patrick Riley revisits history to defend Pope Pius XII from the calumnious attacks of secular fundamentalists and their allies.

Regular columnist Kevin O’Brien also attacks the “spin” of those who distort history, offering an encouraging example from recent history of truth triumphing over calumny.

Susan Treacy devotes her regular music column to the posthumous history of J. S. Bach: “Reviving Bach: Revisiting the Posthumous History of a Once Neglected Genius”.

Thomas Howard reviews two books related to Dunstan Thompson, the neglected poet of the Catholic Cultural Revival.

Jeremy Holmes reviews Eternity, Time, and the Life of Wisdom by the great theologian and bane of heretics, Father Matthew Lamb.

Kenneth J. Howell, who was recently fired from his teaching post at the University of Illinois for teaching the Catholic position on homosexuality in a class on “Catholicism and Catholic Thought”, reviews the new book on the Church Fathers by Pope Benedict XVI.

Geneva Leonard reviews another of the Holy Father’s books, Jesus, The Apostles, and The Early Church.

Dena Hunt reviews Andrew Thornton-Norris’s Spiritual History of English.

Clara Sarrocco reviews Bleeding Hands, Weeping Stone, a new book on miracles.

Phillip Campbell reviews Josef Pieper’s Tradition: Concept and Claim.

Brendan King reviews Finding a Hidden Church, a new book about the suffering of Ukrainian Catholics during the years of the communist terror.

Lorraine V. Murray reviews Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity and the Peace That Passes All Understanding by Heather King.

The exciting poet, Mark Amorose, offers three of his finest historical poems: “Christendom”, “Good Queen Mary” (about the martyred Queen of Scots), and “The Battle of Tours”, and Sister Ruth Evans offers her fine short poem, “Seafarer”, a meditation on the Blessed Virgin’s Motherhood.

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