The Vatican Museums have inaugurated the exhibition “Paul VI and Jacques Maritain: The Renewal of Sacred Art Between France ...

Jacques & Raissa Maritain Beggars for Heaven by Jean-Luc Barré Notre Dame, 528 pp., $50 Not long ago I met a young woman who is studying philosophy at Stanford, ...

He does me the undeserved honor of comparing the reception of the book to the reception, nearly a century ago, of the great Catholic thinker Jacques Maritain’s new vision of Christian politics ...

Last year marked 50 years since the death of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain and almost 60 years since the promulgation of “Nostra Aetate,” the Catholic Church’s declaration ...

The scholarly works of Jacques Maritain, a prominent mid-20th-century Catholic philosopher, are beyond the comprehension of most casual readers. Fortunately, his essays on education are quite ...

Its first recipient was feted with a dinner at New York’s Fifth Avenue Hotel in May 1955, though the 250 guests present heard the honoree, Jacques Maritain, accept his award by telephone ...

The bright side, for Maritain, was how many Jews had lately converted to Catholicism, a reason for optimism according to this theologian, whose main preoccupation was “those depraved Jews who ...

Near the end of his wondrous tapestry of Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil, Alan Jacobs quotes an extended passage from Eliot written during World War II. Eliot ...

In 1901, on a summer day in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, Jacques Maritain and his future wife, Raïssa, concluded a suicide pact. The two Sorbonne students despaired at the lectures of France ...