The ones who didn’t convert

Some very well-known 20th-century writers converted to Catholicism. Two who did not were C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot. In Lewis’s case, he was, as a son of loyalist Protestant Ulster, unable ultimately to find a way past deep, ancestral instincts…

Cardinal Dolan: By no means finished yet

There’s a steak house on East 50th Street in midtown Manhattan, to which Cardinal Timothy Dolan and I would sometimes walk for dinner after a pre-prandial or two in his sitting room. The restaurant was less than a block away from the residence…