Until They Breathe Together

Twenty-four centuries ago Aristotle named eight Greek cities torn apart after taking in settlers, and named the cure: time, until the peoples “breathe together.” Fr. G. V. W. Lewis tells their stories, weighs them against Rome, Deuteronomy, Aquinas and the Fathers, and adds his eyewitness account of Portugal’s retornados to ask what the West must learn about the pace of belonging.