The Mirror of Charity
Rievaulx Abbey, in the moors of north Yorkshire in England, is a ruin – approachable only by tourists. Yet spiritually,…
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Rievaulx Abbey, in the moors of north Yorkshire in England, is a ruin – approachable only by tourists. Yet spiritually,…
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Who was she really? Can we even agree on what to call her? Is she Mary Magdalene or Mary Magdalen;…
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“With conversion comes trouble,” St. Augustine warned us. So it shouldn’t be surprising that the major public act of self-examination…
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“With conversion comes trouble,” St. Augustine warned us. So it shouldn’t be surprising that the major public act of self-examination…
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“With conversion comes trouble,” St. Augustine warned us. So it shouldn’t be surprising that the major public act of self-examination…
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Few things challenge our tranquility and provoke a sense of existential dread more profoundly than the thought of death. If…
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A sentence in Chateaubriand’s Genius of Christianity, truly one of the masterworks of apologetics, caught my attention recently: “God might…
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When, after a series of disputes, the great medieval doctor of the Church, St. Bonaventure was finally incepted as a…
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Our reading today is from the Book of Benedict XVI (A Life: Volume Two), in which he recounts to biographer…
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Is truth the telos of a Catholic university? I’m using telos here the way social scientist Jonathan Haidt does in…
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Psychologist Erik Erikson identified eight “stages of psychosocial development,” passage through which were sequential, cumulative, and necessary to healthy development. …
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A sacrament, as we learned from our catechism, is a visible sign of grace that does what it signifies. Its…
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