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Built with Faith, Renovated with Doubt: Notre-Dame de Paris

If you haven’t been to Paris, you haven’t been to Notre-Dame de Paris, which means you haven’t seen the north Rose…


A Cathedral ot Text and Gesture

One of the axioms of contemporary publicity, religious as well as secular, is that modern man in general, and intellectuals…


If It’s not the Apocalypse

Let’s begin with a simple point, so simple that many otherwise intelligent people deny it. Any country – however many…


A Revolution of Tradition

“Take care. It is easy to break eggs without making omelets.” Thus, the great and wise C. S. Lewis sixty…


‘Non possumus’ (Thoughts about ‘Kidnapped’)

Some years ago, Steven Spielberg speculated about making a film about Edgardo Mortara, a Catholic priest who as a boy…


On Judging Others – Wrongly, and Rightly

Jesus said (Matthew 7:1): “Judge not lest ye be judged.” And many people since, including many Christians catechized by modern…


An Insufficient Truth

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was the Swiss psychoanalyst and founder of Analytical Psychology whose contributions to the field may end…


About that ‘Personal Relationship with Jesus’

It’s a good idea, of course, that “personal relationship” with Jesus. It works itself around any number of contemporary roadblocks…


Snippets: Ethan Hawke’s Biopic about Flannery O’Connor

In Wildcat, the recent film by Ethan Hawke based on the life and work of Flannery O’Connor, one hopes to…


Europe’s Elections: Right, But Not Far

It’s worth paying careful attention to the significant gains recently by so-called “hard right” parties in the European elections. They…