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by 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 | Mar 25, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dante, Denise Levertov, Feastof the Annunciation, figlia del tuo Figlio, Imbelli's "Annunciations Are Frequent Incarnations Rare", Jesus Christ, News, priest working on a kibbutz, The Catholic Thing, Vergine Madre, “Virgin Mother daughter of your Son.” | 0 |
I lay no claim to being a visionary. Still, we sometimes experience incidents that bring us up short, cause us…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 22, 2022 | Books, Budziszewski, Dante, Features, happiness, interview, News, Religion, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, Umberto Eco, Virtue, wealth | 0 |
Professor J. Budziszewski is the author of numerous books, including What We Can’t Not Know: A Guide (Ignatius Press), Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), as well […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 11, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic news, Dante, History, Italy, Literature, News, Pilgrimage | 0 |
Ravenna, Italy, Nov 11, 2021 / 04:20 am The poet Dante famously traveled through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in his masterpiece the “Divine Comedy.” Now, Catholics have a chance to follow in his footsteps — his earthly ones, that is. Dante’s Walk is a 235-mile route that takes pilgrims from the Byzantine splendor of the city
The post Catholics invited to make pilgrimage in Dante’s footsteps in anniversary year appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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Coming just after Hell and just before Heaven, the second of the three books that make up Dante’s Divine Comedy is the Purgatorio—Purgatory. In its ninth canto, Dante places these words in the mouth of the angelic guardian of Purgatory’s gate who, displaying his keys, tells his listeners: I hold them from St. Peter—who bade […]
by bcadmin | Sep 15, 2021 | Archdiocese of New Orleans, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Dante, Literature, News | 0 |
Sept. 14 marked the 700th anniversary of the 1321 death of Florentine poet Dante Alighieri, whose epic poem, “The Divine Comedy,” continues to resonate today
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 4, 2021 | Art, Best of Week, Dante, Featured, Homeless Jesus, News, podcast, Podcasts | 0 |
September 12, 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the greatest poet of Western Christianity. While Dante has had a profound impact on art over the centuries, Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz has undertaken an ambitious project to sculpt Dante’s magnum opus, The Divine Comedy. Mr. Schmalz is the artist behind […]
by bcadmin | May 22, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Dante, Italy, News | 0 |
Italy is honoring Dante Alighieri — who died in exile from Florence on Sept. 13, 1321 — in myriad ways on the 700th anniversary of his death.
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 25, 2021 | Catholic Church, Dante, News, Pope Francis, second, Vatican | 0 |
Following in the steps of his predecessors, Pope Francis on Thursday released a document reflecting on the life and work of Italian poet Dante Alighieri, calling him a prophet of hope in a historic moment where inhumanity and lack of prospect loom large.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 25, 2021 | Catholic Church, Dante, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
During the 2015 celebration of the 750th birthday of Dante Aligheri, Pope Francis invited Catholics from all over the world to read The Divine Comedy, one of the most important works of Western and Christian civilization.
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The Church produces saints because it is staunchly opposed to any kind of totalitarian regime. This, also, is a lesson from history. Who will be the saints of today that will once again, like St. Francis of Assisi, rebuild the Church?
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