The next issue of the St. Austin Review is winging its way to the printers. The theme of the March/April issue is “Storm Troopers of Secularism: Lessons for Today from the Nazi Past”.

Highlights include:

M. D. Aeschliman revisits “the German Tragedy” and its “Dissociation of Sensibility”.

Paul Baxa focuses on “The Hitler Visit to Rome in 1938”.

Stephen Brady pays tribute to “Otto Strasser: Catholic Radical and Hitler’s Number One Enemy”.

Brendan D. King hears “The Confession of Hannibal Lecter: Nazism, Extreme Nationalism and Kazimierz Moczarski’s Conversations with an Executioner”.

George J. Galloway recounts Franz Werfel’s encounter with Saint Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes, praising “A Jew’s Promise to a Catholic Saint”.

Tod Worner contrasts the swastika and the crucifix, “Twisted Cross, True Cross”.

Joseph Pearce surveys “Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church”, showing “The Truth at a Glance”.

John Beaumont examines “The Conversion of Dietrich von Hildebrand: A Doughty Fighter against the Nazis”.  

Fr. Dwight Longenecker looks at “Lewis in Wartime”.

Sr. John Paul Maher, OP, is “Beholding the Woman: Meeting Mary in Sacred Art”.

Ken Clark admires “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz” by El Greco.

Kevin O’Brien learns from “Eric Voegelin and the Masters of Reality”.

Fr. Benedict Kiely laments “Europe’s Uncertain Values”.

Donald DeMarco hearkens to the beauty “When Heaven and Earth Meet” in the genius of Yehudi Menuhin.

James Bemis praises D. W. Griffith’s classic movie, Intolerance.

Portia Hopkins reviews Beauteous Truth by Joseph Pearce.

Jay B. reviews Defending Marriage by Anthony Esolen.

Philip J. Harold reviews My Battle Against Hitler by Dietrich von Hildebrand.

Regis Martin reviews Let’s Not Forget God: Freedom of Faith, Culture, and Politics by Cardinal Angelo Scola.

Plus New Poetry by F. Dwight Longenecker, Ann Applegarth and Gene Fendt.