Thomas Aquinas: Understanding Evil

At some point, most of us will go through a crisis of belief and wonder if there is a God. If God exists, why doesn’t He prevent evil? Christians recite […]

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Death and Redemption for the Modern Heart: What We Can Learn from the Anglo-Saxon Elegy

What is it about modern man and our notion that there will, and always should be, constant progress, that we are actually entitled to this progress, to a long and […]

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The Quest of the Golden Queen

Part I: Incendium Aegis-wreck, that King worn like a shield, And now she stands, bare-breasted, staring as barbs fly- Arrows from the star-crossed side of field Drawn from a quiver, […]

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The Gravity of Sin: Truth in the Grotesque in Dante’s Inferno

We have a tendency to diminish our sin. We use words like “messy” to describe our spiritual condition when we really mean “flawed” or “broken.” If we are merely messy, […]

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Memento Mori: A Reflection on “The Ruin”

One of the idols of the modern era is that of Progress: namely, the idea that our culture is inevitably becoming more enlightened, more knowledgeable, more sophisticated and advanced in […]

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The Venerable Bede: Following the Medieval Christian Footpath

For if history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good: or if it records evil of wicked men, the devout, religious […]

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The Book of Kells

A manifold mass meanders through the museum. A line leads to the legendary illumination. The crowd creeps to the crepuscular cranny. I approach the plinth and peer at the pages. […]

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Dante for Moderns

“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost”[1]  – Dante, Inferno   “Already were all my will and […]

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Wearing One’s Habits: Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Making of a Virtuous Man

“It makes no small difference, then, whether we form habits of one kind or another from our very youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference.” […]

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Hogwarts in History: The Neo-Medieval Vision of Harry Potter

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling writes that the Dursleys “had a very medieval attitude toward magic.”[1] Here Rowling either reveals a bit of ignorance, uncharacteristic […]

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