Joan Didion ponders her daughter's life in spare prose that is at once insightful and depressing.
Julian Barnes's new novel is a philosophical mystery that morphs into a morality tale.
Nefas literally ldquo unspeakable rdquo is a Latin word for evil It is a heavy word weightier than malum the term for a garden-variety moral wrongdoing It is an offense against the sacred sacrilege in the sense of a ritual violation but even more in the sense of a violation of the divine
The bishops now argue that an exemption should include any employer who finds the mandated coverage morally objectionable.