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Our Greatest Poet: Celebrating Dante after 700 Years

September 14, 2021 Dr. R. Jared Staudt 7

This year we celebrate the Year of Dante, marking 700 years since the poet’s death on September 14, 1321. It is fitting that Dante died on the day when we commemorate the triumph of the […]

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Pope Francis: The Incarnation is the ‘heart and inspiration’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy

March 25, 2021 CNA Daily News 0

Vatican City, Mar 25, 2021 / 10:00 am (CNA).- In a letter for the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, Pope Francis said that the mystery of Christ’s Incarnation is the “true heart and inspiration” of Dante’s great… […]

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Dante and the glory of God in man

March 24, 2021 Fr. Charles Fox 3

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (c 1265-1321), who died 700 years ago this year, takes the poet on an epic journey from earth to the utter depths of hell, on a long climb up […]

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Doing some real Advent spiritual work

December 1, 2020 Bishop Robert Barron 2

We will never be adequately prepared for the coming of the Savior unless and until we feel in our bones that there is something we need to be saved from. If we don’t require salvation, […]

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