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Chapp's Schtick

Contemplating Guardini’s manifesto of a melancholic

February 23, 2024 Larry Chapp 42

“Melancholy is too painful, reaches too deeply into the roots of human experience to permit us to leave it to the psychiatrists.” — Romano Guardini, The Human Experience (Cluny Media, 2018) The word “melancholy”, in its […]

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Sharing the treasures of the Catholic intellectual tradition: The story of Cluny Media

June 27, 2021 Conor Dugan 7

Founded in 2015, and now based in Rhode Island, Cluny Media has been disseminating both a steady stream of classics, many of which have been out of publication for decades, and new titles, some of […]

The Dispatch

Robert Hugh Benson’s otherworldly stories illuminate the nature of prayer

August 20, 2018 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 5

Reminiscent at times of the fiction of George MacDonald, Benson’s stories range from beautiful to macabre. […]

Books

“The devil always leaves us in the lurch”

April 5, 2018 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 7

Orestes Brownson’s strange book, Like a Roaring Lion, has something fascinating about it, as he picks apart the grave errors that render men vulnerable to the […]

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An enduring novel about persecution, faith, and sacramental drama

November 2, 2017 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 1

Father Robert Hugh Benson’s 1912 novel Come Rack! Come Rope! still speaks to us today. […]

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