Duc In Altum – Put Out Into the Deep
Cameron Edman
April 14, AD2018
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What would it look like if we submitted our entire will to God? What kind of an impact would we have on the world?
Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited and the Chitchat Apostolate
Patrick Malone
March 21, AD2018
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited, a novel in dramatic form, revolves around a conversation between two men, Black and White, about the existence of
How Can Catholics Be Good Art Appreciators?
Patrick Malone
March 2, AD2018
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The reason “Christian films” continue to prosper is because they are incredibly effective in winning their target demographic. However – this is the exact reason
Simply Learning to Love: The True Meaning of Mystical Theology
David Torkington
January 23, AD2018
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Many years ago Bishop Casey of Brentwood, England, asked me to set up a Residential Retreat and Conference Centre in Chingford, London. He wanted to use
T.S. Eliot and Dreading Christmas
Patrick Malone
December 23, AD2017
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Few people have likely ever been so dismayed by the passing of Christmas as the Magi and the prophet Simeon, as least as the poet
The Poetry of Molly McCully Brown: A Theology of Broken Bodies
Patrick Malone
October 30, AD2017
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Molly McCully Brown‘s The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded is a magnificent collection of poems, depicting the experiences of profoundly disabled persons who, shunned
A Baby’s Corpse: The Disingenuous Eucharist of “mother!”
Patrick Malone
October 2, AD2017
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Darren Aronofsky’s film mother! starts out well enough, making masterful use of its setting and cinematography and centring on stellar performances from Jennifer Lawrence as
Did Neanderthals Have a Soul?
Bob Kurland
September 6, AD2017
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The magisterium of the Church takes a direct interest in the question of evolution, because it touches on the conception of man, whom Revelation tells us
The Young Pope: Popes Are People, Too
Patrick Malone
August 26, AD2017
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The Young Pope, written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, is premised on what is apparently a radical idea: that popes might experience spiritual growth even
Living in the Mutable: Of Time and Eternity
Bob Drury
August 14, AD2017
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Pope St. John Paul II begins the encyclical Fides et Ratio with the admonition “Know Yourself”. Most apparently, we are material creatures and as such
Fear, Trust, and Skinny-Dipping in the Platte
Anthony S. Layne
July 27, AD2017
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I have trust issues. It’s precisely this fact about me which limits my public self-revelation, and which more than anything else explains why I’m still
Sex, Desecration, and Shame in Terrence Malick’s Song to Song
Patrick Malone
July 21, AD2017
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As Roger Scruton says, “Sex is either consecration or desecration, with no neutral territory in between.” That’s essentially the thesis of Terrence Malick’s recent trilogy
Reclaiming the Ancient Beauty of the Latin Rite
Nicholas LaBanca
May 26, AD2017
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This past Lent and Easter I spent a lot of time at a Byzantine (Ruthenian) Catholic parish near my home. As someone who often gets
The Theology of the Body: Part II
Jim Dougherty
April 10, AD2017
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theology of the body I have been waiting impatiently for the “theological timebomb set to go off.” This was George Weigel’s assessment of The Theology
The Theology of the Body: Part I
Jim Dougherty
April 9, AD2017
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theology of the body 1979 was an exciting year. My wife was pregnant most of that year with our third child. This was not an
Slivers
Nathaniel Lauer
January 31, AD2017
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I had a love-hate relationship with my mother’s tweezers and sewing needles growing up. I always ran to my mom when I so often would
Rosary Reflections: A Renewed Call to Prayer
James Hooper
January 29, AD2017
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Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life. Nobody comes to the father except by me.” He identified himself elsewhere as a
Sexuality, Reality, and the Sacramental in Knight of Cups
Patrick Malone
September 7, AD2016
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“The artist penetrates the concrete world in order to find at its depths the image of its source, the image of ultimate reality.” Flannery
Strange Dignity: Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God
Patrick Malone
July 21, AD2016
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Lester Ballard, main character of the novel Child of God, commits murder, necrophilia, sexually harasses women, and is generally considered to be crazy. This being
What Theology Teaches About Corporate Responsibility
Dawn Carpenter
June 9, AD2016
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As business people, sometimes we forget just how connected the world of work is to the work of God in the world. Without question, individual
Behold Your Mother: This Mother’s Day, This Month of May, and Beyond
Lilla Marie Lottinger
May 8, AD2016
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When speaking to groups of Catholics, or sharing one-on-one, I often ask, “Are you consecrated to Mary?” And the large majority of the time the
In the Shelter of His Rays
Lilla Marie Lottinger
April 10, AD2016
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Entering Into the Resurrection – “The Shelter of His Rays” One of my favorite Rosary Mysteries is the Resurrection of Christ, though they all have their
