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Edward Short

Edward Short is the author of several highly acclaimed books on St John Henry Newman. Recently, he chose and introduced The Saint Mary’s Anthology of Christian Verse. His latest book, What The Bells Sang: Essays and Reviews will be published any day by Gracewing. He lives in New York with his wife and two young children.

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Marriage, Motherhood, and the Plain People of Ireland

26 Jun 2024
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  “Herein lies wisdom, beauty and increase; Without this folly, age and cold decay” —Shakespeare, Sonnet 11 I In King Lear, Shakespeare sets the scene for what will be his anatomy of a society descending into moral chaos by having his Duke of Gloucester speak of his...
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The Blessings of Children

21 Dec 2023
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    “The Lord said to Cain: ‘What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground’ (Gen 4:10). The voice of the blood shed by men continues to cry out, from generation to generation, in ever new and different ways. The Lord’s questio...
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The Prophetical Anthony Trollope

09 Nov 2023
  Nothing is more mischievous than the self-complacency of historians who treat the past as though it were an object lesson in why the present is more enlightened than the past. Yet precisely because these historians flatter the self-complacency of their readers, their...
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Evelyn Waugh’s Displaced Persons

23 Mar 2023
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  “Throughout the early Middle Ages the monks were regarded by their lay contemporaries as the intercessors for the rest of society, divided against those who gave it livelihood by toil and those who defended it by arms. The monasteries therefore were not endowed solely as...
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Exequies and Lamentations: The Waste Land Now

31 Jan 2023
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  Some years back, some of my readers might remember, an advertisement for corn whisky ran on billboards across the country: “Old Grand-Dad—Over a Hundred Years Old and Still in the Bars Every Night.” Something of the same might be said about T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land...
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Henry James and the Ties of Family

13 Jun 2022
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Recently, we have heard a good deal about the family during our national discontents. Those sworn to the progressive ideology blame the family for perpetuating what the Soviets used to call “dissidence”; they even go so far as to insist that children denounce parents if they fail...
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Coolidge and the Catholics

25 May 2022
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  I In September 1924 President Calvin Coolidge gave a speech to over 100,000 Catholics of the Holy Name Society1 that exhibited his truly prophetic grasp of the role church and state play in upholding and sustaining America’s constitutional order. Now, when that order is...
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Listening to the Heartbeat of the Pro-life Movement

20 Apr 2022
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  [Edward Short is the author of several acclaimed books on St. John Henry Cardinal Newman and a contributor to the Human Life Review. The following article appeared in Catholic World Report on September 30, 2021, and is reprinted here with the magazine’s permission....
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In Praise of Motherhood

15 Mar 2022
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  The other day, in an idle moment, I was reading the Spectator and came upon a rather shocking piece on motherhood, a shocking but a brilliant piece entitled “What does Gen Z have against motherhood?” by the wonderfully talented young writer, Freya India, who, responding to...
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Abortion, the Hunger for Heaven and Thomas Hardy

11 Jan 2022
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Whenever we think of the forces arrayed against the pro-life cause—and they can sometimes seem rather formidable, especially when we take into account that they include what St. John Henry Cardinal Newman nicely referred to as the “aboriginal calamity” of original sin—we must...
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