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Men Must Endure Their Going Hence: Remembering C.S. Lewis

ShareMen Must Endure Their Going Hence. So warns Edgar in Shakespeare’s classic King Lear. And so says the tombstone shared by illustrious Christian apologist Clive Staples Lewis and his brother Warren. The tombstone, located in the yard of Holy Trinity Church in Headington Quarry, Oxford, commemorates the writer C.S. “Jack” Lewis, who died 48 years [...]

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TOMORROW IS CHESTERTON DAY! Well, If You’re in Rome, That Is.

ShareI spotted the announcement this morning: Over on Facebook, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, S.J.—one of the organizers of the Vatican Blogfest—reported enthusiastically that tomorrow is Chesterton Day at La Civilta Cattolica, the College of Catholic Writers of Civilization. So I looked it up. The panelists! The topics! And it’s free!! Now all I need to do [...]

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HOW CAN I UNDERSTAND, UNLESS SOMEONE INSTRUCTS ME? The Ethiopian On Your Street

ShareToday’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 8:26-40) recounts the story of the Ethiopian eunuch. This guy was a powerful officer in the court of the queen, in charge of her entire treasury. He was riding along through the desert in his chariot, reading the prophet Isaiah, when Philip—who had been prompted by [...]

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SWIMMING THE TIBER: In the Words of Flannery O’Connor, “Here Comes Everybody!”

ShareWHAT DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON? Actors John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Jim Nabors, Faye Dunaway, Vincent Price, Susan Hayward and Patricia Neal Academics and intellectuals Hadley Arkes (Amherst), Mortimer Adler (Great Books), Robert Bork (Yale), G.K. Chesterton Royalty King Charles II ( Great Britain ) Artist Peter Paul Rubens Heroes of the Old West [...]

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