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The ordering of time in the world reflects what a culture thinks about celestial realities, whether it be the movement of the heavenly orbs or heaven itself.
The ordering of time in the world reflects what a culture thinks about celestial realities, whether it be the movement of the heavenly orbs or heaven itself.
By the end of the fifth century, the Roman Empire was in ruins.
This book is an opportunity to discover, or rediscover, the sounds and sensations of being Catholic. We pray the life will draw you in and delight you, and fill your days with its riches.
Who can hold out against the father of lies, without the grace of God?
Christianity, in its adamant opposition to polygamy, was "the most powerful force for implementing monogamy in Western Civilization." And immense good has come from that contribution.
Most people — even most Catholics — don't realize it, but the twentieth century, or at least the first two-thirds of it, were a kind of golden age for Catholic intellectual and cultural life.
The Catholic impact on Western law can hardly be overestimated.
Christ's manliness transformed man's understanding of manhood, and it is this transformation that, through the development and mediation of the Catholic Church, became a new Western ideal.
Watching the spillover crowd in Notre Dame de Paris at the Sunday evening vigil for the victims of the terrorist attack was a moving experience.
"Señor Carpenter," calls a man wearing the cord of a lay Franciscan, "have you heard what I want you to make?"