Dear Readers, I was recently browsing through The Quotable [C.S.] Lewis (Tyndale, 1989), and was struck by how often Lewis extolled the virtue of re-reading books. “You really lose a lot,” he wrote in a […]
Few of the following qualify as “beach reading;” they all qualify as good reading. In graduate school, I was informed that there was no such thing as “biblical theology,” only textual analysis. Bishop Robert Barron […]
In his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul addresses corruption among Corinth’s early community of believers. At the time, some Christians in the Greek city had begun denying Jesus’s resurrection, leading to a focus […]
Fr. Marcel Uwineza was only 14 years old when he witnessed the painful experience of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. He saw his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister murdered during the civil war between the Tutsis and Hutus. / Sister Olga Mas… […]
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Vatican City, Jan 5, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Benedict XVI — especially during his extraordinary career and ministry as a theologian and professor — was not only one of the towering intellects in global Catholici… […]
"The Carrying of the Cross" by the artist Titian is one of the paintings featured in the new book "Jesus in Art and Literature." / Public Domain
Washington D.C., Dec 29, 2022 / 10:05 am (CNA).
At first glance, “Jesus in Art … […]
Dear Readers, Almost exactly a year ago, I used this space to tell the tale of moving many books into my newly converted “shoffice” in the wilderness near Elmira, Oregon (pop. 546). Admittedly, it’s not […]
A detail from Francisco de Zurbarán’s painting “The Immaculate Conception” (1628–1630) / Benedictine College YouTube channel
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 8, 2022 / 13:45 pm (CNA).
Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, is kicking off a new… […]
Elite Students – “America’s elite university students are more demographically diverse than the general population, but more politically divided along lines of race, gender, sexuality, and religion.” Diverse and Divided: A Political Demography of American […]
The Leaked Decision – “The leaking of Justice Samuel Alito’s abortion decision caused leftist journalists and celebrities to erupt in hate-filled attacks on Supreme Court justices” Journos and Celebrities RAGE Over Supreme Court Abortion Leak […]
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