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by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2022 | All Soul's Day, death, Eucharist, Homer, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jesus Christ, News, Purgatory, Resurrection, The Dispatch | 0 |
If you aren’t nerdy enough to read The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and also the appendices to the books, then you aren’t nerdy enough. I’m kidding, of course, but it is true […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2022 | Aristotle, Dante, Homer, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Milton, News, Politics, The Dispatch, The Hobbit, The Hobbits, The Shire, Tom Bombadil, Virgil | 0 |
Great literature is, almost inevitably, a political affair. It could hardly be otherwise. Poetry, as Aristotle recognized long ago, plays with the universals of human experience — and man is a political animal. Thus the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 16, 2022 | Aragorn, Daily Quote, J.R.R. Tolkien, News, Strider | 0 |
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost. “From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the sha…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 5, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Fiction, Hugo Dyson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, News, Owen Barfield, The Dispatch, World War I | 0 |
Today, when we think of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, we are likely to imagine inspired storytellers, talented scholars, committed Christians—iconic men remote from the rest of us. With such gifts, many […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 24, 2022 | America, England, Evelyn Waugh, G.K. Chesterton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Graham Greene, J.R.R. Tolkien, Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson, News, St. Bede, The Dispatch | 0 |
May 25th is the feast day of St. Bede, who, perhaps after St. Gregory of Narek, would likely win the award for “least known doctor of the church,” of which there are a total of […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Abortion, American Catholics, Canon Law, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mass shootings, monotheism, News, pro-life, progressives, The Dispatch, totalitarianism, Traditional Latin Mass | 0 |
Tolkien and Chesterton – “J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton, two great champions of the modern fantasy genre, understood literary creation, and art in general, as somehow expressing God’s creativity in the world.” The Theology of […..
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Abortion, American Catholics, Canon Law, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mass shootings, monotheism, News, pro-life, progressives, The Dispatch, totalitarianism, Traditional Latin Mass | 0 |
Tolkien and Chesterton – “J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton, two great champions of the modern fantasy genre, understood literary creation, and art in general, as somehow expressing God’s creativity in the world.” The Theology of […..
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | ash wednesday, J.R.R. Tolkien, Middle-earth, News, Russia, Society of Catholic Scientists, The Dispatch, Ukraine, Women’s Health Protection Act | 0 |
Religious implications: “There are at least three clearly religious dimensions to this conflict that, so far, have largely been overlooked in most analysis.” With war in Ukraine, the global religious landscape is destined to shift […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 1, 2022 | 2022, 2022: There’s Good News and Bad News, advice to young Catholic writers, Benedict XVI, C. S. Lewis, Carlos Eire's Reformations, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christopher Lasch, Columns, Francis X. Maier, George Orwell, George Parkin Grant, God, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jesus Christ, Joseph Ratzinger, Leszek Kolakowski, News, Peter Drucker, Pierre Manent, Roger Scruton, stay off Twitter, The Catholic Thing, Where evil abounds grace and goodness abound more | 0 |
Francis X. Maier: Assume the best in others. Critique issues and behaviors, not persons. Spoken words can be forgotten; not so written words.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 23, 2021 | 2021, Anthony Esolen, Apostle John, Aramaic, Brad Miner, C. S. Lewis, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dante Alighieri, George Herbert, greek, Hebrew, In the Beginning Was the Word: An Annotated Reading of the Prologue of John, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jesus Christ, John Milton, John Wesley, News, The Catholic Thing, the first 18 verses of John 1., Venerable Bede | 0 |
Brad Miner on Anthony Esolen’s new commentary on the Prologue in John’s Gospel: linguistic-Biblical scholarship for evangelism.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 10, 2021 | Books, Brandon Vogt, CS Lewis, Features, G.K. Chesterton, Ignatius Press, interview, J.R.R. Tolkien, News, Peter Kreeft, Word On Fire | 0 |
Peter Kreeft is one of the most prolific, respected, and influential Catholic writers of the last fifty years. He is the author of nearly a hundred books (he doesn’t keep count, but says it’s somewhere […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 11, 2021 | Daily Quote, J.R.R. Tolkien, News, peace, Veteran's Day, War | 0 |
Image: via Shutterstock A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith We honor the courageous men and women of the U.S. military who have served or currently serve their country. Thank you for your service in the defense of freedom. “War must be, while …
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