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Extra, extra! News and views for June 15, 2022

June 15, 2022 CWR Staff 10

The Philosophical Approach – They don’t teach existentialist philosophy at music school, but if they did. . . Advice to Musicians from Martin Heidegger (Ted Gioia) Raised as a Boy – The only long-term study done […]

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Catholics invited to make pilgrimage in Dante’s footsteps in anniversary year

November 11, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

A guide to Dante’s Walk, a 235-mile route from Ravenna to Florence in Italy. / Terre di Mezzo.

Ravenna, Italy, Nov 11, 2021 / 04:20 am (CNA).
The poet Dante famously traveled through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in his masterpiece the “Divine … […]

Books

2020’s Best-kept Literary Secret

November 9, 2020 Jane Greer 7

Charis in the World of Wonders is the novel of the year—and the odds are that you’ve never heard of it. Or, if you have, you’ve not yet read it. Every year, a hundred thousand […]

Essay

Looking into the Future Through His Eyes: John Paul II, the Catholic Church, and the Crisis of the West

November 5, 2020 George Weigel 12

Editor’s note: For several years now, the many institutions of higher education in Kraków have jointly sponsored annual “John Paul II Days,” typically held in November: a series of lectures and symposia dedicated to a […]

Features

“Beauty attracts…beauty also wounds”

March 21, 2020 Paul Senz 8

This is the first installment in our series on the evangelizing power of beauty. In this series, we are looking at how beauty can bring us to God, convey a sense of the sacred, point […]

Analysis

History Redeemed: Justice for Pope Pius XII

March 3, 2020 William Doino, Jr. 19

When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, he was honored across the world, with the New Yorker leading the praise, calling him a “great pope.” That perception rapidly changed, however, in the 1960s. The pope […]

Essay

Newman and the problems of Catholic intellectual history

July 28, 2019 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 29

Last fall I cheered the impending news of John Henry Newman’s canonization, for which we now have a date: October 13 of this year. October happens to be the month in which, after many years […]

The Dispatch

“The story of philosophy is important because it’s humanity’s story”

June 11, 2019 Paul Senz 4

Renowned philosopher and author Peter Kreeft has written a new, four-volume history of philosophy entitled Socrates’ Children. The four volumes span thousands of years, from the ancient world through to today (the four volumes are: […]

The Dispatch

There’s nothing new about anti-Catholic bigotry

March 15, 2019 Joanna Bogle 23

“And this is The Monument.” The group stops to look up at the golden glittering depiction of flames at the top of a column on a cobbled street. London has a vast number of monuments […]

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Pope Pius XII: “His tiara turned into a crown of thorns,” says historian

March 4, 2019 Deborah Castellano Lubov 20

Editor’s note: This interview was first posted on October 26, 2018, and is reposted today in light of the news that the Vatican  will open its archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII. Pius […]

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