Note from the Managing Editor:
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom of the Diocese of Sourozh in Great Britain tells us — or perhaps just reminds us — that prayer is "...born of the discovery that the world has depths; that we are not only surrounded by visible things but that we are also immersed in and penetrated by invisible things." See "At daybreak Jesus went to a deserted place."
Next in line Anthony Esolen writes that "...we are not called to oppose, notionally, comfortably, the characteristic evils of other ages, basking in the glow of a righteousness that costs nothing." Rather, "We are called to suffer in opposing the characteristic evils of our age. And we will not begin even to conceive of how such a thing is possible, if we do not obey an authority that transcends mankind."
That's from Esolen's article "Holier than Them" which I found exceptional both in the quality of the ideas he puts down and in the precision and beauty of the expressions he uses. When I wrote Brad Miner of The Catholic Thing for permission to reprint this article I commented on the calibre of Esolen's writing both in this particular article and more generally. Brad Miner wrote back, "Esolen is a near miracle. The best thing is his Facebook page, where you see his astonishing erudition, including his command of multiple languages." You may be interested in Anthony Esolen's Facebook page.
I'll let you discover the many other interesting articles that follow on your own. - J. Fraser Field |
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"Faith is a liberation of my I from its preoccupation with self ... a breaking out of the isolation that is the malady of my I." - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
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Holier than Them - Anthony Esolen - The Catholic Thing
My friend, the inestimable Robert George, likes to ask his college students how many of them, if they lived in the South before the Civil War, would have opposed slavery.
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Escaping the Constant Sales Pitch - David Warren - The Catholic Thing
An unforgettable scene outside a college book sale in Toronto the other day: an old man, an old Jewish scholar, whom I have known in passing, thirty years.
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New Assisted Dying Law Will Claim Unintended Victims - Dr. Will Johnston - Huffington Post Canada
The Carter decision to allow assisted suicide and euthanasia claimed that Canada could avoid abuses through careful guidelines and screening. Experience proves otherwise.
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28th Sunday in OT - Father John Horgan - CERC
Is gratitude part of my disposition every day?
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Editorials of Interest:
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Editorials of Interest
Must one vote? - Catholic World Report
We must move beyond the sense in which we see voting as the beginning and end of the citizen's political activity.
Trump, Taxes and Citizenship - NY Times
A healthy nation isn't just an atomized mass of individual economic and legal units. A nation is a web of giving and getting.
Vandal destroys statues in four Roman churches - CNA
Italian police have arrested a 39-year-old Ghanaian man who entered several historic churches in central Rome Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, destroying a number of statues and creating panic among the faithful and tourists who were there at the time.
Football and the Hail Mary - NC Register
Whether fans realize it or not, football's Hail Mary pass is a subtle reminder that Our Lady triumphs in the end.
A Call to Arms - Christian Renaissance Movement
Since we are in the unique position of having the fullness of supernatural truth, we are also in a unique position to reveal the fullness of supernatural beauty.
Podcast: Teaching the Way of Beauty with David Clayton - Catholic Exchange
David Clayton, the artist, iconographer, and professor at Pontifex University, discusses the importance of beauty and why it's necessary to cultivate an appreciation of art, theology, and liturgy.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |
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