Note from the Managing Editor:
I don't know if I believe the line that there are story tellers and then there are born story tellers. But if it's true, Anthony Esolen surely belongs in the more elevated and organic sounding category.
Every month, under the listing "How the Church Changed the World," Tony Esolen tells an affecting story of a saint or of an obscure man or woman of faith in the pages of Magnificat. We are honoured to offer those articles on CERC. Find Esolen's story about Saint Peter Claver, "Slave of the Ethiopian Slaves", below.
Michael Ward was once described by N.T. Wright as "The foremost living C.S. Lewis scholar." A few years ago Ward was a highly respected Anglican priest serving in an Oxford college with a bright and comfortable life ahead of him. The story of how he came to give it up to become Catholic is reminiscent of Cardinal Newman's own journey under similar circumstances.
Michael Ward puts it like this, "Newman rather similarly had to conclude about the snapdragon outside his window at Trinity College, it may be lovely, but there are other, more important considerations." In "C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, and the Narnian Code" Ward discusses his decision to become Catholic, his book on the secret symbolism Lewis hid within his Chronicles of Narnia, and whether Lewis would have become Catholic as well had he been alive today.
And then, Father George Rutler crafts a colourful tour of the history of iconoclasm and why we are at a low point even of that low practice today. See "The Mindless Iconoclasm of Our Age." - J. Fraser Field |
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The Recent Popes on Work and Workers - The Catholic Thing
Work is a form of civil love: it is not romantic love nor always an intentional love, but it is a true, authentic love that enables us to live and moves the world forward.
Make Hell Hot Again - First Things
Doesn't the presence of everlasting torment put a damper on the success story? Is God really so victorious if, at the end of the day, his order must endure this perpetual disturbance.
Thousands of Iraqi Christians Returning Home - Catholic Herald
Aid to the Church in Need says 3,000 families will likely return this month to Qaraqosh on the Nineveh Plains, which suffered some of the worst violence committed by Islamic State.
Reaping What We've Sown - The Catholic Thing
Recent research reveals that sperm counts for men living in the West have plunged by 60 percent since 1971.
Dying of Despair - First Things
Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults, and the tenth leading cause of death overall in the United States.
Anthony Burgess: On Being a Lapsed Catholic - First Things
Perhaps some of the prayers that go for the souls in purgatory might occasionally be used for us. Those souls at least know where they are. We don't. I don't.
College Kids Say the Darndest Things: On Identity - YouTube
Family Policy Institute of Washington visited the campus of the University of Washington to see if students would affirm or reject Joseph Backholm's new chosen identity: a 6'5" Chinese woman.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |
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