Friday Links
March 6, 2026
This ‘Screwtape for Our Times’ Will Challenge and Confound You
Father Donald Haggerty with Siobhan Fallon Hogan | Catholics and Cappuccinos 4
An Apologia for the Novel and a Defense of Permanent Things
At the Edge of Sand and Sky
Back of the Book podcast with Sunil Iyengar: Stories in Stanzas
This ‘Screwtape for Our Times’ Will Challenge and Confound You
Brad East on The Body of this Death: Letters from the Last Archbishop of Lancaster by Ross McCullough:
With these epistolary snapshots, McCullough tackles an extraordinary range of subjects: from virtual reality, secular liberalism, and the nature of fatherhood to Islam, infant baptism, and the Incarnation. The result is a tour de force: a postmodern Pascal, an American Chesterton, a Catholic Kierkegaard.
Father Donald Haggerty with Siobhan Fallon Hogan | Catholics and Cappuccinos 4
Siobhan talks to renowned author Father Donald Haggerty about the importance of prayer during Lent and his book, Conversion: Spiritual Insights Into an Essential Encounter with God. They discuss the crowds at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC & people flocking to confession. Perfect to watch during Lent.
An Apologia for the Novel and a Defense of Permanent Things
If you want the unvarnished truth about the human heart, your only choice is to read fiction. A great novelist can, with great precision, teach you moral and spiritual lessons unavailable elsewhere, except, perhaps, in Scripture. That, or something like it is the central insight that drives this delightful collection of essays by Christopher Scalia, son of the late, great United States Supreme Court justice, grandson of a distinguished professor of romance languages, and himself a former university teacher of English literature, who is now senior fellow in the Social, Cultural and Constitutional Studies department at the American Enterprise Institute.
At the Edge of Sand and Sky
Jude Russo write for The Lamp on the Church in Doha:
The Gulf countries all have religious liberty, in a sense. Non-Muslims are formally allowed, with the permission of the government, to practice their respective cults publicly and without the harassment of the authorities. This is not exactly the kind of stuff that typically gets Western liberals cheering. Missionary activity is discouraged or outright banned, and the government issues licenses to churches and temples. The priests are largely drawn from the orders that have always taken an interest in the East: the Carmelites and the Capuchins. The current apostolic vicar of Northern Arabia, the jurisdiction that covers the greater part of the Gulf, is one of the world’s handful of Trinitarians, an order of friars founded for the practical work of ransoming Christian captives during the Crusades.
Back of the Book podcast with Sunil Iyengar: Stories in Stanzas
Chris Scalia and Sunil Iyengar talk about the new anthology edited by Iyengar, The Colosseum Anthology of Narrative Verse, and more! An episode dedicated to one of my favorite things. I haven’t listened yet, but it is next on my list and should be on yours too.
