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by bcadmin | Sep 9, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Cezanne, modernity, News, Odyssey, Roy Lichtenstein, Shakespeare, The Dispatch | 0 |
Strange as it may sound, C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) hated cars. And newspapers. And zippers. Really. What are for most of us the banal and indispensable necessities of daily life, were, for Lewis, icons of modernity. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Features, Film & Music, hamlet, News, Robert Eggers, Shakespeare, the lighthouse, The Northman, The Witch | 0 |
C.S. Lewis, in his preface to St. Athanasius’ On The Incarnation, wrote a brisk apologia for reading premodern authors, later published under the title “On the Reading of Old Books.” Lewis’s simple thesis is that […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 15, 2022 | Birth control, Dale Ahlquist, Divorce, Education, family, G.K. Chesterton, Ignatius Press, Marriage, News, Shakespeare, The Dispatch | 0 |
G.K. Chesterton was a monumental figure in the Catholic Church of the twentieth century whose continuing influence is as robust as his famous girth. This year commemorates a century since his conversion (on July 30, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 7, 2021 | 2021, adultery, Amoris Laetitia, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Divorce, Father Thomas G. Weinandy, fornication, gay and lesbian, Joseph Pearce, Juliet’s reckless love, Learning from Romeo and Juliet, News, Pope Francis, sexual harassment, Shakespeare, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy on Shakespeare’s tragedy of the irrational excesses of mistaken sexual love, the only cure for which is the Gospel.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 14, 2020 | Books, Evelyn Waugh, Features, François Mauriac, G.K. Chesterton, interview, Maurice Baring, News, Shakespeare | 0 |
December 14 marks the 75th anniversary of the death of Maurice Baring, literary convert, bestselling novelist and beloved friend of G. K. Chesterton. To commemorate the anniversary and to celebrate the legacy of this great […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2020 | Domestic Church, Get Married Young Man, Marriage, News, Shakespeare, Women | 0 |
If it has been awhile since you’ve read The Tempest, it is definitely worth a re-read. If you haven’t ever read The Tempest…then how can you call yourself a gentleman? The play is about a man named Prospero. He is the former Duke of Milan who was betrayed and exiled by his brother to a […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2020 | Domestic Church, Get Married Young Man, Marriage, News, Shakespeare, Women | 0 |
If it has been awhile since you’ve read The Tempest, it is definitely worth a re-read. If you haven’t ever read The Tempest…then how can you call yourself a gentleman? The play is about a man named Prospero. He is the former Duke of Milan who was betrayed and exiled by his brother to a […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 10, 2020 | 2020, barbarians inside the gates, Black Live Matter, BLM, Columns, compromise, Dante, David Carlin, Down with Christopher Columbus?, General Robert E. Lee, News, Plato, Shakespeare, tearing down monuments, The Catholic Thing, Tolstoy | 0 |
David Carlin: It’s not just that the neo-barbarians are at the gates; they have been for many years. Now they’re actually inside the gates.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 29, 2020 | 1 Cor. 15:21, 2020, Anthony Esolen, As You Like It, Bible translation, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dt. 8:3 4:10, Gen., Lk. 12:6, man, masculine usage, Mt. 6:1, News, Not by Cardboard and Plywood Alone, Shakespeare, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Anthony Esolen on modern Bible translators’ skittishness about using the word “man.” Let God speak, whether or not you like the way He speaks.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 3, 2020 | 1 Corinthians, 2020, Aquinas, Beyond Therapy, Brad Miner, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Charles Krauthammer, Columns, Dante, God, Heavenly Bodies, Holy Spirit, James Q. Wilson, Jesus Christ, Leon Kass, Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To, Mary Ann Glendon, News, President’s Council on Bioethics, resurrection of the body, Robert George, Shakespeare, St. Paul, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Brad Miner: The greatest of the promises of Christ is our resurrection. Jesus is “the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep,” but all will awaken.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 19, 2020 | Abortion, human rights, macbeth, Murder, News, Shakespeare, The Dispatch | 0 |
With participants in this year’s March for Life converging upon Washington this week, it seems to me apropos to consider one of the Western Civilization’s profoundest reflections upon the Fifth Commandment. In a pivotal scene […]
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