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The Lighthouse is a tale of simple humanity, but told beautifully

February 14, 2022 Zander Doby 1

There is something about the concept of lighthouses, beacons of safety and warning that shine their light out over the dark and uncaring sea, that elicits a sort of solemn peace. This peace persists in […]

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Michael O’Brien: “The Sabbatical is a call to stand firm…”

September 12, 2021 Zander Doby 5

Michael D. O’Brien—iconographer, painter, novelist, critic—is the popular author of many best-selling novels, including Father Elijah, Strangers and Sojourners, Elijah in Jerusalem, The Father’s Tale, Eclipse of the Sun, Sophia House, The Lighthouse, and Island […]

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Confessions of an anti-Catholic antichrist

November 18, 2020 Daniel Blackman 10

Did you know the Catholic Church has officially ruled that we’re not to try and fix a date for the arrival of the antichrist? The decree was composed in 1516, at the Fifth Lateran Council, […]

Features

“The arts are languages of the soul”: An interview with Michael O’Brien

November 7, 2020 Carl E. Olson 9

Iconographer, painter, and writer Michael O’Brien has been a unique creative force for decades. He is the popular author of several best-selling novels, including Father Elijah, Elijah in Jerusalem, The Father’s Tale, Eclipse of the Sun, Sophia House, Theophilos, The Fool […]

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Word Awake is a masterful study of Michael O’Brien’s apocalyptic novels

November 27, 2019 Frank Wilson 3

Nathaniel Delaney, the protagonist of Michael D. O’Brien’s Plague Journal—the third novel in a sequence of seven entitled Children of the Last Days—is the editor of a small-town newspaper in British Columbia when the novel […]

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Biography of Michael O’Brien details a creative life full of joys and sorrows

June 21, 2017 Richard Bastien 9

Over the past century, most Western countries have produced great Catholic fiction writers. The UK may rightly pride itself on Evelyn Waugh, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the U.S. on Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor, […]

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Today Pope Francis visited one of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas—or shanty towns—in an event that he personally added to his World Youth Day 2013 itinerary. He was met by residents of the Manguinhos favela’s Varginha […]

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