Books
Larry Norman: Left Behind
My late brother-in-law was largely responsible for creating “Contemporary Christian Music”. He loved Jesus and he introduced me to Chesterton, but the thing he didn’t understand […]
T.S. Eliot
Essay
The “Cassocked Shadow” of Richard Wilbur
A New England poet of nature, indeed, but something must also be said for Wilbur’s Catholic vision of the poet. […]
The Dispatch
Mr. Eliot’s Rose: The artist, memory, and selective vision
You have to believe something to embrace it. Only then can it become your rose, a memory we all share, yanked from the memories of […]
Essay
Epiphany and the coming of the Christ-Child
While many similarities exist between the epiphany to the Magi and the epiphany to us, important differences also surface. Our experience of the Messiah’s revelation […]
Editorial
In gratitude for the gift of the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”
How I learned that reading and studying the Catechism, Church doctrine and dogma, and theology are not ultimately about knowing things or facts but about knowing […]
Essay
On teaching the liberal arts
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 […]
The Dispatch
When Christ’s yoke becomes ours, his Incarnation becomes our divinization
Readings: • Zech 9:9-10 • Psa 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 • Rom 8:9, 11-13 • Matt 11:25-30 Where can we acquire truth and real wisdom? Where can we find true peace and rest? And where can […]