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Extra, extra! News and views for May 18, 2022

May 18, 2022 CWR Staff 5

Tolkien and Chesterton – “J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton, two great champions of the modern fantasy genre, understood literary creation, and art in general, as somehow expressing God’s creativity in the world.” The Theology of […]

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The Incarnation and the Resurrection

April 16, 2022 Dale Ahlquist 2

In his incomparable book on St. Thomas Aquinas, G.K. Chesterton shows that the Angelic Doctor not only argued for the reality of the Incarnation, but also wanted to show the implications of the Incarnation. The […]

Essay

The Hole in Your Culture

April 5, 2022 Dr. Douglas Farrow 8

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 […]

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Joy! Anticipation! Fire?

December 10, 2021 Carl E. Olson 1

Readings: • Zep 3:14-18a • Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 • Phil 4:4-7 • Lk 3:10-18 “Great joy,” wrote G. K. Chesterton, “has in it the sense of immortality…” Joy, like love, hope, and goodness, cannot […]

Books

Benedict XVI: An Apology

November 13, 2021 Joseph Pearce 46

Editor’s note: The following is an exclusive excerpt of the Prologue to Joseph Pearce’s forthcoming book, Benedict  `: Defender of the Faith. Like most people, or at least like most Catholics, I remember exactly where […]