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by bcadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Gerard Manley Hopkins, News, Redemptoris Hominis, Saint John Paul II, Sinead O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, The Dispatch | 0 |
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark St. Pope John Paul II’s feast day, celebrated on October 22nd. ————— “We, […
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 24, 2022 | 2022, and Walker Percy – also Newman, Anglican Church the middle way, Bishop Robert Barron, Brad Miner, C. S. Lewis, Carl E. Olson "The Sacramental Vision and the Fullness of Faith", Charles Williams, Chesterton, Columns, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dorothy Sayers, Elizabeth (“Liz”) Lev, Flannery O'Connor, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Knox, News, Stacy Trasancos, T.S. Eliot, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Since entering the Catholic Church in 1997, I’ve occasionally given talks about my conversion from Protestantism to the Catholic Faith….
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 22, 2022 | Angelico Press, Flannery O'Connor, Infinite Regress: A Novel, Joshua Hren, News, Shusaku Endo, The Dispatch, Wiseblood Books | 0 |
For the past twenty years, the Catholic Church in America has been battered by scandal and division. The John Paul II generation appears to have split itself into three camps. The first is a traditionalist […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 20, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Charles Péguy, Columns, Cynthia Haven, Dana Gioia, Étienne Gilson, Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, François Mauriac, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernanos, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Graham Greene, Hilaire Belloc, Houston’s Cardinal DiNardo, Jacques Maritain, James Matthew Wilson, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Jesus Christ, John Paul II, News, Paul Claudel, Paul Horgan, Randy Boyagoda, Robert Royal, Robert Royal's "Building a Culture of Hope and Beauty", Rod Dreher, Ron Hansen, Sohrab Ahmari, St. John Henry Newman, The Catholic Thing, Thomas Merton, University of St. Thomas, University of St. Thomas Summer Literary Series, Walker Percy | 0 |
People often ask: What can we do, given all the problems that exist in the Church and the world? Most…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 20, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Charles Péguy, Columns, Cynthia Haven, Dana Gioia, Étienne Gilson, Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, François Mauriac, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernanos, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Graham Greene, Hilaire Belloc, Houston’s Cardinal DiNardo, Jacques Maritain, James Matthew Wilson, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Jesus Christ, John Paul II, News, Paul Claudel, Paul Horgan, Randy Boyagoda, Robert Royal, Robert Royal's "Building a Culture of Hope and Beauty", Rod Dreher, Ron Hansen, Sohrab Ahmari, St. John Henry Newman, The Catholic Thing, Thomas Merton, University of St. Thomas, University of St. Thomas Summer Literary Series, Walker Percy | 0 |
People often ask: What can we do, given all the problems that exist in the Church and the world? Most…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 13, 2022 | Ask Your Husband, Disney, Flannery O'Connor, modernism, New Jersey, News, Rembrandt, The Dispatch, The Great Reset, transgenderism, Walker Percy | 0 |
An unexpected controversy: If the book “Ask Your Husband” were pulled from publication, you might have thought it would be after the publisher faced pushback from scholars taking issue with its provocative reading of the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 3, 2021 | Flannery O'Connor, News, The Dispatch | 0 |
Reading Flannery O’Connor requires a stout heart and a strong stomach. In her short life before she died of terminal lupus, she wrote two novels and roughly two dozen short stories that continue to shock […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 12, 2021 | Flannery O'Connor, Joshua Hren, News, Shusaku Endo, Tan Books, The Dispatch, Walker Percy | 0 |
In his essay, “A Secret Vice,” originally a 1931 lecture at Pembroke College, Oxford, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote of a “secret hierarchy” of individuals who have the curious hobby of constructing their own languages. Perhaps the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | "Indifference at Home", 2021, C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dom Philip Jebb, Dulce et Decorum Est by Michael Pakaluk, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Flannery O'Connor, men without chests, Michael Pakaluk, Msgr. Ronald Knox, News, poet Wilfred Owen, Roman poet Horace, Siegfried Sassoon, Sweet and fitting it is, The Catholic Thing, to die for one’s country, World War I, WWI | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk: The death in battle has never been “sweet,” pleasant to see, or experience; not a matter of feeling or sentimentalism.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | 2021, Allegri’s Miserere, and a free society, birthdays, Boethius, chaste love, Chesterton, Christmas, Columns, Copernicus, Courtship, Dante, Elgar’s Dream, esteem for childhood, esteem for mothers in households, Flannery O'Connor, Georg Cantor, Leonardo, Mendel, Michael Pakaluk, Newman, News, Péguy, St Francis, st. therese, The Catholic Thing, the Milan Cathedral, the Pietà, the Sistine Chapel, the Summa, Thomas à Kempis, universities and hospitals, “Pied Beauty, “Silent Night | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk: Christian civilization superposes three dimensions: man as created, man as fallen, man as redeemed.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 14, 2021 | 2021, A Supernatural People, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Fall of Man, Flannery O'Connor, human nature, News, Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky, Sacramental life and Redemption, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky: Original sin wounded human nature. Human love, human relations, and work retained Godly dignity but were obscured.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Flannery O'Connor, Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, News, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch, Thomism | 0 |
I recently started looking into nihilism… but then I realised it was pointless. For some, that joke is enough to expose the absurdity and illogic of a philosophy that holds that there is no meaning […]
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