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“Instructions Before Visiting Earth” and the Taming of Gnosticism

November 12, 2026 Matthew Becklo 3

“In the event that you wake up and find your soul separated from source and manifest into material form, don’t panic. Your condition is only temporary.” So begins “Instructions Before Visiting Earth,” a poem by […]

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Politics as Wish: A review of The Enchantments of Mammon

July 9, 2020 Chilton Williamson, Jr. 5

History is not fate but it is logical, even when the human actors do not themselves behave logically on occasion, or even much of the time. Intellectual historians, whose business is identifying and tracing the […]

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New life, new voices in Catholic letters

July 14, 2018 James Matthew Wilson 2

That such poetry, as found in recent collections by Ryan Wilson and Mark Amorose, is being published now should tell us that literary culture is far better […]

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Reading Pope Francis with both respectful docility and critical charity

April 11, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 87

Catholics frustrated with Pope Francis’ style and record of leadership ought not allow partial accounts to poison them against the Holy Father. […]

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“The devil always leaves us in the lurch”

April 5, 2018 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 7

Orestes Brownson’s strange book, Like a Roaring Lion, has something fascinating about it, as he picks apart the grave errors that render men vulnerable to the […]

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