ARTICLES
The following articles from the archives of The Lamp magazine are free to read.
Politics Cannot Save Us
Though it seems all but a self-evident truth now that the “American experiment” in ordered liberty ends in conflagration, the…
Ursula de Jesus and the fortress of patience
In the middle of the seventeenth century in the city of Lima, a living woman asked a dead one whether…
Going Out: A COVID Diary
It crosses the mind of the young and zealous seminarian from time to time what the priesthood might entail, what…
Terry: A Philosophical Fragment
As our readers are no doubt aware, classicists and philosophers around the world are rejoicing at the news of a…
John Prine, R.I.P.
John Prine died. Perhaps he found some humor in this event, as he suggested he would on “Please Don’t Bury…
Kale-flavored smoke
Jules Verne (translated, edited, and introduced by William Butcher)Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasOxford University Press, pp.464, $12.95 I no…
How I Joined the Resistance
I often wonder what my grandmother—Mamaw, as I called her—would have thought about her grandson becoming Catholic. We used to…