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A taste for blood: Vampires, Catholicism, and popular culture

October 22, 2021 Eleanor Bourg Nicholson 7

During the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, a major outbreak of vampiric hysteria exploded across Eastern Europe. Documentation of purported vampiric incidents was erratic and hysterically exaggerated. This great vampire fright came upon the heels […]

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Like me, if you know anything about Tolkien’s life, it is probably owing to the work of Humphrey Carpenter, who cornered the market in Tolkien scholarship in its early years, producing both the first major […]

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Readings: • Ez. 37:12-14 • Psa. 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 • Rom. 8:8-11 • Jn. 11:1-45 “Lazarus, come out!”  With that simple, dramatic command, the Incarnate Word spoke words that demonstrated his power over death. It concludes one […]

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