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The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II

April 1, 2025 Carl E. Olson 19

Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005. […]

Books

Speak, Memory: A review of All That Will Be New: Poems

September 10, 2022 James Matthew Wilson 13

The poet, literary biographer, and Catholic spiritual writer, Paul Mariani published his last book of poems, Ordinary Time, in 2019. Much of it written in the aftermath of his recovery from a brain tumor, the […]

Books

Saint Bede, English Catholicism, and America

May 24, 2022 Casey Chalk 3

May 25th is the feast day of St. Bede, who, perhaps after St. Gregory of Narek, would likely win the award for “least known doctor of the church,” of which there are a total of […]

The Dispatch

“Death on drum”: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the mystery of suffering

May 4, 2020 Joseph Pearce 4

The mystery of suffering, or the problem of pain as C. S. Lewis called it, has puzzled people since time immemorial, for as long, in fact, as people have been asking fundamental questions about the […]

Essay

Rediscovering the Form of Things: On My Work To Date

March 14, 2020 James Matthew Wilson 4

I would like to recall a scene of almost two decades past. I was in my first year of doctoral work and was studying, at home on a bright Sunday afternoon. I found myself reflecting […]

The Dispatch

The Little Way of Catherine Chandler

June 15, 2019 Daniel Rattelle 3

In his verse memoir, The Prelude, William Wordsworth wrote: “I began/ My story early, feeling, as I fear, / The weakness of human love for days/ Disowned by memory.” He was anticipating the objection that […]

Features

The decline of culture, the loss of beauty—and the surprising resurgence of poetry

May 16, 2019 Carl E. Olson 12

Dana Gioia is an internationally recognized poet and critic, and the author of several collections of verse, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award, and the widely acclaimed 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016). […]

Books

Elizabeth Jennings and the Poetry of Faith

March 24, 2019 Edward Short 2

Before his early death at forty-four, Robert Louis Stevenson confided to one of his best friends from his Samoan hideaway: “Were it not for my health which made it impossible, I could not find it […]

General

“Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creatures”

May 13, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 1

What happened in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary can and must happen in our own lives. Each of us has received the Holy […]

Essay

On teaching the liberal arts

September 14, 2017 James Matthew Wilson 3

My maturation as a professor came when I learned to love ideas more by way of coming to love them through—in pilgrimage with, in communion […]

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Since it is almost Christmas Eve, I thought I would share a wonderful quote I came across earlier this Advent, from an essay by G.K. Chesterton about Santa Claus. [I]f an example be required to […]

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