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Three Key Ways Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Is Timelessly Compelling
The film is true to the original in three key ways in which it portrays the world and captures the imagination: as moralistic, as providentially governed, and familistic.
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Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’: Seeing Homer’s Story Through Epic Tradition
Nolan’s portrayal of the good of hospitality, the danger of rational control’s abuse of that good, and the penitential possibility of exile all become apparent through epic tradition.
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The Shepherd Cannot Run: Bl. Stanley Rother
“The shepherd cannot run at the first sign of danger. Pray for me, that I might be a sign of the coming of Christ for these good people.”
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Chesterton Prescribes Sanity to Escape Our Modern Monoculture
We must insist upon human particularity over dehumanizing systems, cultivation over manufacture, creation over consumption, and life over the culture of death.
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Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Did Homer Much Honor
Homer’s epic is a masterpiece of the vexing, inspiring, unresolvable, God-kissed human condition. In Nolan’s attempt to bring it to life, he succeeded.
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Boys Will Be Boys: The B. P. J. Supreme Court Decision
Whatever the future holds, those opposing the revolutionary aims of the trans rights movement may find that an appeal to “normality” is ineffective.
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The Liturgy of the Hours in the Fabric of Life
Could it be that my family (and your own) is beckoned to come and join in this tender and strong voice of Christ to address our Father?
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Christopher Nolan’s Modern Man Is Perpetually Adrift
Nolan has long prepared the cinematic ground for this disconcerting proposition.
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Is Being Virtuous Good for Your Health?
An insidious version of the false prosperity gospel continues to haunt us: If I have faith in God and live according to Jesus’s teachings, I will have health, wealth, and…
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How Catholic Schools Can Cultivate the Sacramental Imagination
The sacramental imagination is a capacity for perception schools should cultivate by teaching students to see all things in the light of Christ.
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Never has there been another artist who embodied such extremes—fugitive, street brawler, hedonist, and murderer—and yet created the most intense, sublime, and transcendent images in Catholic history.
Read NowAn insidious version of the false prosperity gospel continues to haunt us: If I have faith in God and live according to Jesus’s teachings, I will have health, wealth, and happiness.
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