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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 […]

The Dispatch

The First Sunday of Lent: Deluges and Deserts, Sin and Salvation

February 17, 2024 Carl E. Olson 4

On the Readings for Sunday, February 18, 2018, the First Sunday of Lent […]

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Is Christianity “pie in the sky” religion or an “island of mercy and security”?

February 10, 2024 Carl E. Olson 6

On the Readings for Sunday, February 11, 2018 […]

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Jesus Christ’s physical healings “announced a more radical healing”

February 3, 2024 Carl E. Olson 5

On the Readings for Sunday, February 4, 2018 […]

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“Nothing but you, Lord”: On the death of St. Thomas Aquinas

January 27, 2024 David Paul Deavel 9

This year marks the 750th anniversary of the death of Dominican Friar Thomas Aquinas. A Doctor of the Church ranking with the Fathers of the Church in honor and esteem, he died at age 49 […]

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Prophets, demons, and false gods

January 27, 2024 Carl E. Olson 8

On the Readings for Sunday, January 28, 2018 […]

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“What shall I do, sir?”: On the conversion of Saint Paul

January 25, 2024 Carl E. Olson 23

Readings: • Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22 • Psa 117:1bc, 2 • Mk 16:15-18 Horse or no horse, it’s a powerful, moving story. My pastor and I have a running joke about the conversion of St. […]

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On resurrection, abortion, and judgment

January 22, 2024 James V. Schall, S.J. 4

Editor’s note: The following essay was originally posted on April 9, 2012; it is reposted here in recognition of the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. “On the morning of the […]

The Dispatch

Jonah and the call to constant conversion

January 20, 2024 Carl E. Olson 9

On the Readings for January 21, 2018 […]

The Dispatch

Christ’s question for everyone: “What are you looking for?”

January 13, 2024 Carl E. Olson 6

On the Readings for Sunday, January 14, 2018 […]

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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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