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The gnostic Christ fails, the true Christ heals

September 7, 2024 Carl E. Olson 22

On the Readings for Sunday, September 9, 2018 […]

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G. K. Chesterton on Dan Brown: The Interview

October 18, 2017 Carl E. Olson 6

“Good literature may tell us the mind of one man; but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men. A good novel tells […]

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The Magdalene: Saint, Sinner, or Goddess?

July 22, 2017 Carl E. Olson 4

It’s rather sad that the best-selling book about Mary Magdalene is The Da Vinci Code, a novel that has now sold over 80 million copies. While the novel is, of course, named after the famous […]

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Move over, Dan Brown; here come Spadaro and Figueroa!

July 17, 2017 Carl E. Olson 33

My good friend Sandra Miesel, with whom I co-authored The Da Vinci Hoax years ago, was fond of starting out her talks about the mega-selling novel The Da Vinci Code by saying: “Dan Brown does […]

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Readings: • Dn 12:1-3 • Ps 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11 • Heb 10:11-14, 18 • Mk 13:24-32 At the start of this month, On the Solemnity of All Saints, the first reading was from The Apocalypse, the […]

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