Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, a Catholic nun and the only woman in the history of television to found and a lead a cable network for twenty years, died yesterday, Easter Sunday, at age ninety-two.After entering the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a Franciscan religious order, in . . . . Continue Reading »
Winter's Tale: The Icy Pang of Contrition and the Gift of Thawing Grace
Alexi Sargeant, Aleteia
‘This doubtful day of feast or fast': Good Friday and the Annunciation
Clerk of Oxford, A Clerk of Oxford
Building the Virtuous Neighborhood
Matthew Loftus, American Conservative
Why I'm Becoming a Catholic at Easter
K. Albert Little, Patheos
How Hieronymus Bosch Defied the Ideals of an Age
Michael Prodger, New Statesman
Personal Love and the Call to Chastity
Samantha Schroeder, Public Discourse
God's Hidden Call
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi Sacks
Alas, Poor William Shakespeare. Where Does His Skull Rest?
Christopher D. Shea, New York Times
Davenant House, Christian Community, and the Work of Study Centers
Jake Meador, Mere Orthodoxy
Mark BauerleinLife Magazine, September 6, 1948—It was on the coffee table at a friend's house, and I have just spent the last hour poring over it. There is Joe DiMaggio under the lights slamming a double to beat the Athletics. A few pages later there's an editorial entitled “How Red a . . . . Continue Reading »
This Holy Week, I am feeling the need to participate in some Catholic extremism.Now of course, we live in a time when religious extremism is a major threat to the world. That’s why I find it all the more distressing that so may Americans have a warped view of what constitutes extremism. The Barna . . . . Continue Reading »
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Religion's Place in a Religiously Violent World
Miroslav Volf, Christianity Today
In Fear and Trembling
Br. Hyacinth Grubb, Dominicana
How Will Young People Choose Their Religions?
Emma Green, Atlantic
Not Jew-ish but a Jew
Mark Oppenheimer, Tablet
‘The Passion': Jesus' Final Hours as a Halftime Show
Mike Hale, New York Times
Terrence Malick’s Frustrating Film Theology
Tim Markatos, Acculturated
It's the Character
Mona Charen, Townhall
Why Cooking Matters
Gracey Olmstead, American Conservative
Félix Nadar was not a man easily pinned down. Though he’s on the books as one of the most important photographers of the nineteenth century—both for photographing the leading French writers of his era and for making advancements in camera technology—Nadar’s life spanned a number of diverse occupations, from caricaturist to balloonist. Continue Reading »
Knight of Cups is a masterpiece, Malick’s greatest and most moving film. Continue Reading »
Screwtape in Vegas
Leah Libresco, Commonweal
Full Interview with the Pope Emeritus
Benedict XVI, Catholic World Report
Daredevil Wrestling with God
Alexi Sargeant, Acculturated
London's Religious Awakening
Ben Judah, Catholic Herald
Thinking Aloud: Stanley Fish as a Journalist
Mark Bauerlein, Weekly Standard
Why Are So Many Smart People Such Idiots About Philosophy?
Olivia Goldhill, Quartz
Othello's Wicked Magic
Kate Havard, Washington Free Beacon
The Theology of Donald Trump
Michael Horton, Christianity Today
Two Monks Invent Denominations
Mallory Ortberg, Toast
In a press statement yesterday, US Secretary of State John Kerry did what many human rights activists have been asking him to do for months: he called ISIS’s treatment of Christians and other religious minorities “genocide.” Kerry’s statement came as a surprise. For months, the State . . . . Continue Reading »
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