Issue 15

Lent 2023

The Publisher's Desk

On Pope Benedict XVI's legacy.

Correspondence

This issue's letters and comments.

Feuilleton

Odds and ends from the staff of The Lamp.

Departments

Brass Rubbings

Metaphor for the Apocalypse

Jacob Minyard

On a hilltop church.

The Jungle

La Messe du Mercredi

Amaury de Vallon

On the Traditional Latin Mass in Paris.

Historia Ecclesiastica

Squares All Chequered

Michael J. McGrath

On chess and the Church.

Apologia

Falling

Vijaya Bodach

On a family's faith.

Features

Benedict XVI 1927-2022

Archbishop José H. Gomez, Christopher Caldwell, et al.

On the life and legacy of Joseph Ratzinger.

Arts and Letters

Prince Harry’s Shallows

Theodore Dalrymple

Spare

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex

Random House, pp. 416, $36.00

Mouthed by Mortals

Matthew Walther

The Silmarillion (Illustrated)

J.R.R. Tolkien

William Morrow, pp. 432, $65.00

A Raga is a Raga

George Rafael

Finding The Raga: An Improvisation On Indian Music

Amit Chaudhuri 

New York Review Books, pp. 272, $17.95

Layered Separates

Samuel Goldman

Threading the Needle

Richard Press

J. Press, pp. 200, $34.95

Threading the Needle Vol. 2

Richard Press

J. Press, pp. 200, $39.50

Bagatelle

Two Sons of Latium

Joey Belleza

Some light verse.

Appreciations

Howard Pyle

James Gurney

On the American illustrator.

Nunc Dimittis

Labyrinth of the World

Christopher McCaffery

On Little Free Libraries.