A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
We live inside the envelope of our senses. Our grasp of reality is limited by what we can see, hear,…
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by bcadmin | Jun 9, 2022 | 2022, Anthony Esolen, C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Divine Comedy, Ernest Hemingway, existential fear, Francis X. Maire's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place", Heaven, Hell, immortal soul, Jesus Christ, Loneliness, News, Robert Royal, Rod Serling, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
We live inside the envelope of our senses. Our grasp of reality is limited by what we can see, hear,…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2021 | Daniel Fitzpatrick, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, News, Paradiso, U.S. & World 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 with its perceptive and reflections on the human condition and on humanity’s seemingly endless search for God.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2021 | Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, News, Pope Francis, Saint John Paul II, The Dispatch | 0 |
This year we celebrate the Year of Dante, marking 700 years since the poet’s death on September 14, 1321. It is fitting that Dante died on the day when we commemorate the triumph of the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 26, 2021 | Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, From the Pope, Hope, News, Virtue, Virtue of hope | 0 |
The life and works of the famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri remain a lasting treasure that embodies the virtue of hope so desperately needed in today’s world, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Advent, Dante, divine anger, Divine Comedy, Emmanuel, Isaiah, judgment, News, The Dispatch | 0 |
We will never be adequately prepared for the coming of the Savior unless and until we feel in our bones that there is something we need to be saved from. If we don’t require salvation, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 24, 2020 | 2020, Anthony Esolen, Artur Schnabel, Aslan, C. S. Lewis, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dante, Divine Comedy, Lent, News, Persecution, political correctness, Robert Royal, safe spaces, Safety Last, The Catholic Thing, Virgil | 0 |
Robert Royal: Our lives are in God’s hands, far better hands than our own. In the meantime, we may (and must) face all sorts of threats.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2020 | Dante, Divine Comedy, Heaven, News, Paradiso, Sean Sullivan, Spirituality | 0 |
It is not just Star Wars which works well in trilogies (depending on the trilogy, at least). Dante, not one to leave his readers waiting in purgatory, completes theDivine Comedy with an expedition through heaven. Having seen the damned wallowing in the…
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