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by bcadmin | Aug 7, 2022 | America, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, Catholics and Protestants, Eric Voegelin, Essay, Features, George Bernanos, Graham Greene, lay vocation, News, prolife, Puritans, Quentin Tarantino | 0 |
The following is adapted from July 30 remarks to the 12th annual Napa Institute summer conference. One of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite movies – and I mean this seriously — is the 1975 film Switchblade Sisters. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 20, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Charles Péguy, Columns, Cynthia Haven, Dana Gioia, Étienne Gilson, Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, François Mauriac, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernanos, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Graham Greene, Hilaire Belloc, Houston’s Cardinal DiNardo, Jacques Maritain, James Matthew Wilson, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Jesus Christ, John Paul II, News, Paul Claudel, Paul Horgan, Randy Boyagoda, Robert Royal, Robert Royal's "Building a Culture of Hope and Beauty", Rod Dreher, Ron Hansen, Sohrab Ahmari, St. John Henry Newman, The Catholic Thing, Thomas Merton, University of St. Thomas, University of St. Thomas Summer Literary Series, Walker Percy | 0 |
People often ask: What can we do, given all the problems that exist in the Church and the world? Most…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 20, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Charles Péguy, Columns, Cynthia Haven, Dana Gioia, Étienne Gilson, Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, François Mauriac, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernanos, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Graham Greene, Hilaire Belloc, Houston’s Cardinal DiNardo, Jacques Maritain, James Matthew Wilson, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Jesus Christ, John Paul II, News, Paul Claudel, Paul Horgan, Randy Boyagoda, Robert Royal, Robert Royal's "Building a Culture of Hope and Beauty", Rod Dreher, Ron Hansen, Sohrab Ahmari, St. John Henry Newman, The Catholic Thing, Thomas Merton, University of St. Thomas, University of St. Thomas Summer Literary Series, Walker Percy | 0 |
People often ask: What can we do, given all the problems that exist in the Church and the world? Most…
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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 | Oct 21, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Graham Greene, News, praying for priests, priesthood | 0 |
I am in the process of re-reading Graham Greene’s novel, The Power and the Glory. The book has not been without its criticisms, as some in the Church were deeply offended by the content when it was published in 1940. I read it my senior year of high school in AP English, but I must […]
by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | 2021, and Destiny, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Charlie Rangel, Columns, Culture, Evelyn Waugh, Garcia Marquez, God at the Ritz: Attraction to Infinity, Graham Greene, Gregory Wolfe and Lisa Lickona, Jesus Christ, John Paul II, Lorenzo Albacete, News, president of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, The Relevance of the Stars: Christ | 0 |
Robert Royal on an essay collection by the late Msgr. Albacete that addresses modern science, current theology, and intellectual limits..
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 19, 2020 | 2020, And So We Continue, Brad Miner, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Evelyn Waugh, Faith & Reason Institute, Flannery O'Connor, Fr. Bevil Bramwell, G.K. Chesterton, George Marlin, Graham Greene, Hadley Arkes, hic et nunc, Hilaire Belloc, James V. Schall S.J., Jason Boffetti, Judy Arkes, Mary Eberstadt, Michael Novak, Michael Uhlmann, Muriel Spark, News, Ralph McInerny, Robert Hugh Benson, Robert Royal, St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, The Catholic Thing, Tom Bethell, Veronica Royal, Walker Percy | 0 |
Robert Royal on the genesis and growth of TCT: part providence and part the participation of our readers. And then there’s that name . . .
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2020 | Art & Culture, Coronavirus, Featured, Graham Greene, News, The Power and the Glory, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
In February, I read a novel for a men’s book club (back then, we still had the good fortune to be able to meet for normal social interactions; March’s meeting got canceled). The novel was Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, which I had never read, and had always reproached myself for not having […]
by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Abbondio, Alessandro Manzoni, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Cristoforo, Graham Greene, I Promessi Sposi, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Priests, The Power and the Glory, Vittorio Messori | 0 |
Because much of the novel unfolds against the backdrop of an outbreak of the plague, it’s no surprise Alessandro Manzoni’s famous work “I Promessi Sposi” has been much-cited over the past month, as Italy has grappled with the highest coronavirus death count in the world
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