*Image: The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful against the Demons by Jean Fouquet, c. 1452-60 [THE MET, New York]. The illustration is from the “Hours of Étienne Chevalier” and shows Notre Dame, the spire of Saint-Chapelle, the Pont Saint-Michel, and other monuments of the Île de la Cité in Paris.
Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are Columbus and the Crisis of the West and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.