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The first sight that met my eyes when my father turned onto Nassau Street was the high Gothic tower of the Commons, where we freshmen and sophomores of Princeton University would take our meals.
There has never been a more playful and light-filled and healthily popular architecture than that of the Gothic cathedrals.
Three moments in the history of the Church's battle against the ancient shame, slavery.
The young Jesuit had been sent to the northern mountains of Wales, of all places.
The cattle keepers had done with their day's labor, and were now noisily gathering in one of the halls on the monastery grounds.
The only reason we care about the poor is because Christianity has won.
Behold two tall buildings. One is an inn for God and man, and one is not.
The great anthropologist Ruth Benedict taught us the distinction between shame cultures, like ancient Greece, and guilt cultures like Judaism and Christianity.
As we strive to restore in our culture a lively, passionate love for the human person as made in the image of God, there is no more uplifting vision than the art of the Christian Renaissance.