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by bcadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Gerard Manley Hopkins, News, Redemptoris Hominis, Saint John Paul II, Sinead O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, The Dispatch | 0 |
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark St. Pope John Paul II’s feast day, celebrated on October 22nd. ————— “We, […
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 24, 2022 | 2022, and Walker Percy – also Newman, Anglican Church the middle way, Bishop Robert Barron, Brad Miner, C. S. Lewis, Carl E. Olson "The Sacramental Vision and the Fullness of Faith", Charles Williams, Chesterton, Columns, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dorothy Sayers, Elizabeth (“Liz”) Lev, Flannery O'Connor, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Knox, News, Stacy Trasancos, T.S. Eliot, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Since entering the Catholic Church in 1997, I’ve occasionally given talks about my conversion from Protestantism to the Catholic Faith….
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 21, 2022 | 2022, Benedict XVI, Catholic Culture, Columns, James V. Schall, John Emmet Clarke, Josef Pieper, News, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, reading, Robert Royal, St. John Paul II, T.S. Eliot, Take and Read Lest You Forget, The Catholic Thing, tradition | 0 |
College commencement season is upon us. Graduates now face the prospect that they may never again be required to read…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2022 | Cardinal John Henry Newman, Father Welzbacher, Featured, Galactic Shepherd, Keats, Local News, News, Priest’s poem, Shelley, T.S. Eliot | 0 |
Last month, Father George Welzbacher made the final revisions to his poetic magnum opus — “Galactic Shepherd: Time’s Charioteer.” For 44 years, he had written, reconsidered, reimagined and re-written his eight-page poem. In his 93rd year, it was finally finished.Last month, Father George Welzbacher made the final revisions to his poetic magnum opus — “Galactic Shepherd: Time’s Charioteer.” For 44 years, he had written, reconsidered, reimagined and re-written his eight-page poem. In his 93rd year, it was finally finished.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 7, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dante Alighieri, Five Great Odes, Inferno, Jonathan Geltner, News, Paradiso, Paul Claudel, Purgatorio, Roman pet Virgil, T.S. Eliot, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
This past year marked the seven-hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the greatest of Italian poets and, in…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Canada, Christopher Dawson, covid, Culture, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Essay, Features, G.K. Chesterton, Leonard Cohen, News, Nietzsche, Opinion, St. Vincent Ferrer, T.S. Eliot, Vladimir Solovyov | 0 |
In his Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948), T. S. Eliot writes that “all parties live in amity, so long as they accept some common moral conventions.” While that may seem rather general and somewhat overstated, it is […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 17, 2021 | ash wednesday, ashes, Blessed Virgin Mary, Essay, Features, Jesus Christ, News, repentance, T.S. Eliot | 0 |
Salutem in Domino (Health and salvation in the Lord)! That traditional Latin greeting encapsulates our hope and prayer every day of our lives, but one that we raise with particular intensity for the next forty […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 6, 2021 | Four Quartets, Gospel of Mark, healings, Jesus Christ, News, T.S. Eliot, The Dispatch | 0 |
On the Readings for Sunday, February 4, 2018 […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 3, 2021 | General, literary criticism, News, Samuel Johnson, T.S. Eliot, The Dispatch | 0 |
In his incomparable biography of Samuel Johnson, Boswell recounts that while the poet, critic, essayist, and lexicographer was researching his Lives of the Poets (1781), the last of his great literary projects, “the tranquility of […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 13, 2021 | 2021, Capitol takeover, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Choose Something Like a Star, Columns, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, News, Randall Smith, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, The Catholic Thing, The Day After, The Dry Salvages | 0 |
Randall Smith in troubled times, we recall St. John Paul II’s example of firmness in opposing evil with understanding and character.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 5, 2020 | Advent, Baptism, Four Quartets, Isaiah, Jesus Christ, News, repentance, St. John the Baptist, St. Peter, T.S. Eliot, The Dispatch | 0 |
On the Readings for December 10, 2017, the Second Sunday of Advent […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2020 | 1930, 2020, Anglican Church, Anglicanism, artificial contraception, Church of England, Columns, Humanae Vitae, Lambeth 90 Years Later, Lambeth Palace London, News, T.S. Eliot | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk: At the “bad” Anglican meeting of 1930, birth control was approved. But can “good” Catholic bishops be found today to defend Humane vitae?
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