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Month: April 2021

What is behind the latest unrest in Northern Ireland?

Young people have hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and set hijacked cars and a bus on fire during a week of violence on the streets of Northern Ireland. Police responded with rubber bullets and water cannons.

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Antigone in a Nutshell

Antigone in front of the dead PolynicesSophocles is probably the greatest dramatist in the history of civilization, with the obvious exception of Shakespeare. He lived for ninety years, his life spanning almost the entirety of the fifth century B.C., from 496 to 406. During his long life, which seems to have been spent entirely in Athens, he witnessed both the rise […]

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Saturday in the Octave of Easter

Reading I Acts 4:13-21

Observing the boldness of Peter and John
and perceiving them to be uneducated, ordinary men,
the leaders, elders, and scribes were amazed,
and they recognized them as the companions of Jesus.
Then when they saw …

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Lunch with Hans Küng

A personal memory of a day spent at the renown theologian’s Tübingen home on the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council

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Once Upon a Time, in America

Anthony Esolen: Sin makes the sinner a cripple. The principles of sin do more: they cripple a whole people. They cramp the spirit.

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Apr. 10 Saturday in the Octave of Easter, Solemnity

“Lastly, He showed himself to the Eleven themselves while they were at table. He reproached them for their incredulity and obstinacy…. And He said to them, ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation'” (Mark 16: 14-15).

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