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Reaching Out to the Widow of Nain in Our Midst
Caryll Houselander
The most universal suffering...today is the sense of personal futility: faced with the huge burden o...
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Practical Remedies for Sadness
Fr. Narciso Irala
The first remedy is to take the ideas which cause sadness in us and make them concrete, analyze them...
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Evelyn Waugh's Warning About Vatican II
Robert Garnett
Evelyn Waugh, Catholic convert and the most interesting English novelist of the twentieth century, c...
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Remembering St. Pius V
Roberto de Mattei
Today marks the 450th anniversary of the death of St Pius V in Rome on May 1, 1572, six months after...
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Why We Hunger For Beauty
Francis X. Maier
This essay is excerpted and adapted from comments delivered on April 29 at the Scala Foundation's co...
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A Chapter that Changed My Life: "Diary of a C…
Dr. Tod Worner
"I have seen the devil, as I see you, since my childhood." - George Bernanos
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The Lost Art of Intentionality
Dr. Tod Worner
"All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own ...
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Start with How You Eat
John Cuddeback
"We can ask whether and to what extent our customs about eating are informed by insights into our na...
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A Man's Fear about Being a Man
John Cuddeback
"If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage." - Shakespeare...
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The Way to the Father
Pope Benedict XVI
The Lord said to his disciples: Believe in God, believe also in me (Jn 14:1).
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The Provocation of Fragility
Theodore Dalrymple
In small things, if one pays close enough attention to them, can often be seen wider trends.
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How the Church Has Changed the World: The Poetry o…
Anthony Esolen
"You needn't be so stubborn, sir," says the officer. "We're not asking you to adore Decius. ...
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"Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid…
Caryll Houselander
Too many anxious Christians today think that their efforts to preach and teach and enter into outwar...
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Peace, Wounds, and Breath
Father Paul Scalia
Place yourself with the Apostles in the Upper Room.
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What Will Our Resurrected Bodies Be Like?
Msgr. Charles Pope
When I gave a talk recently at the Institute of Catholic Culture on the subject of the Second Coming...
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The Pillaging and Plundering of the English Monast…
Joseph Pearce
The destruction of England’s monasteries was carried out in two phases.
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The Omen and Presage of the True Victory
John Henry Cardinal Newman
A great number of men live and die without reflecting at all upon the state of things in which they ...
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What to Buy for Sacramental Gifts
Katie Warner
Here are some creative gift ideas for the sacramental season in your life and family.
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What We Are at Death Is What We Are Forever
John M. Grondelski
Your time on earth is fixed, and constantly diminishing — take life and death seriously.
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The Grace to Accept Being Pruned
Dorothy Day
The only answer to the mystery of suffering is this...
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