Ascension
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* Featured image: The Ascension, detail from the “Speculum Humanae Salvationis” (15 c.), Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
Today, as advertised, we are cele...
Contributors
A Frenchman who Showed the Face of God
EMR
He was born in 1836 in Nantes, one of the four pillar-cities of the ancient Duchy of Brittany, to a rich cloth merchant and his wife. Brittany is, to this day, ...
Milwaukee’s Sublime Library
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When you're ten years old, you skitter along, dodging bulky objects, confused by it all. One afternoon, I left the confines of my mother’s overweight Oldsmobile...
Going Deeper: Low Mass Attendance
O.A.C.
What is the Way? What is the Truth? What is the Life?
What does it look like, smell like, sound like? These are the questions to which the heart seeks a defi...
Adoration
O.A.C.
Our deepest hungers are not for food and drink, not for amusements and recreations, not for property and wardrobes, not for notoriety and gossip. We hunger for ...
Paradise on Lincoln
EMR
It's November and a very long winter is on the way. It's two weeks after payday and the account is dry. The car needs work. Mourning and weeping is all well and...
Spotting a Clericalist
Peter
A specter is haunting the Church. The specter of clericalism.
What is clericalism? The unchecked behavior of rogue clerics, drunk on their own po...
Weak Sauce On Weakland
Peter
Many people, in many places and many times, have written about the fall of Archbishop Rembert Weakland. It's old news. At this point, regarding the man himself,...
Till We Have Faces
Teri
C.S. Lewis- cslewis.com photo
Spiritual reading in the non-fiction category is undeniably invaluable; however, many imaginative souls are far more affected ...
Finding Missionaries with Willa Cather
Teri
Willa Cather
Written in 1927, Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop” often is described as her greatest artistic achievement. The narrative is base...