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About James Baresel
James Baresel is a freelance writer. He holds a Master of Arts in philosophy from Franciscan University of Steubenville and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cincinnati.
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The importance of Schuster’s monumental, multi-volume Sacramentary

August 23, 2022 James Baresel 3

Most of those debating the changes in Catholic liturgical life since the 1950s base their positions in—or pay lip service to—the principles of the early to mid-twentieth century “Liturgical Movement.” The argument centers on: whether […]

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A didactic play at the service of literary art and the truth of Catholicism

January 24, 2021 James Baresel 1

The composition of didactic fiction is a risky undertaking. Plots, characters, and the setting of scenes can easily become tools with which a writer makes his points pure means rather than subordinate ends that in […]

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New biography of St. Thomas Becket dispels myths with serious scholarship

November 27, 2020 James Baresel 5

Perhaps the second best-known martyrdom in the history of the Anglophone world is St. Thomas Becket, killed in Canterbury Cathedral during Vespers at the hands of four knights motivated by King Henry II of England’s […]

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Revisionist book on Edward the Confessor avoids subject’s sanctity

November 12, 2020 James Baresel 1

St. Bernadette Subirous once complained that writings about saint’s lives tend to focus on anything but the often long and slow process by which their lives of prayer and of virtue developed day by day, […]

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Chronicle of a Dream offers both a history and spiritual “autobiography”

September 23, 2020 James Baresel 5

It is tempting to use Jose Luis Olaizola’s Bartolomé de las Casas: Chronicle of a Dream as a backdrop for yet another look at the history of the relationship between ethnically European Catholics and non-European […]

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Subversive Catholicism is an eloquent work of reasonable traditionalism

July 6, 2020 James Baresel 1

Few Catholics today will deny that the literary output of contemporary Catholics, excellent as some of it is, does not (as a total body of work) approach the level of accomplishment achieved between the beginning […]

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The exceptional Catholic novelist behind the popular Downton Abbey

June 14, 2020 James Baresel 6

When, several years ago, my wife first asked me to watch Downton Abbey with her, I was somewhat skeptical. A television show which had become that much of a fad seemed unlikely to be particularly worthwhile […]

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Ratzinger’s Western Culture delves deeply into the foundations of European life

May 6, 2020 James Baresel 3

In 1952 Evelyn Waugh visited Goa to attend celebrations marking the four hundredth anniversary of the death of Saint Francis Xavier. Impressed by the devout and traditionally orthodox but distinctly non-European religiosity of the local […]

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The Hundredfold is a needed and very welcome artistic achievement

March 30, 2020 James Baresel 3

When asked if she thought that college creative writing programs stifle too many aspiring authors, Flannery O’Connor said that the real problem is that they don’t stifle nearly enough of them. That such programs do […]

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Pope Francis, Querida Amazonia, and radical chic Catholics

February 26, 2020 James Baresel 37

Like many others, I was pleasantly surprised by the contents of Querida Amazonia, which, if not without concerning features, is almost incomparably better than was widely expected. Greater reflection has, however, led me to think […]

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