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A Short History of the Sign of the Cross
“Love in the Ruins”: Walker Percy’s End of the World
2 Great Books to Complete the Year of St. Joseph
Last Days: Five Dystopian Reads for Your Lenten Uplift
Meeting Willa Cather Via “Death Comes for the Archbishop”
Lenten Reading Suggestions for 2021 from the Word on Fire Institute
“It Is Right and Just” Offers Timely Answers and Unaddressed Questions
A Lewis Scholar and a Character: Remembering Walter Hooper (1931-2020)
“Dominion,” the Values of the West, and the Cross of Christ
Embracing the Great Wide Empty of Advent
Wonder and Beauty: 5 Christmas Gift Suggestions for 2020
A Chapter that Changed My Life: Joan of Arc and the “One Thing”
A Chapter That Changed My Life: J.R.R. Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories”
A Chapter That Changed My Life: “Let’s Pretend” in “Mere Christianity”
A Chapter That Changed My Life: Wendell Berry’s “Jayber Crow”
A Chapter That Changed My Life: “Brideshead Revisted”
“Jurassic Park”: An Unexpected Parable for the Modern Age
Digging Deeper and Building Higher: Further Advice for Christian Writers
5 Reasons the “Great Books” Are Essential Reading for Evangelists
Reckoning with the Complexities of Humankind
Sigrid Undset and “Those Queer Men and Women the Catholic Church Calls Saints”
Wholesome Books: 5 Suggestions for Imaginative Refreshment
On Edgar Allan Poe, Plague, and Trusting Princes
Mr. Rogers Knew: How “The Little Prince” Helps Us See Beyond COVID-19
“The Decadent Society”: Looking Heavenward, at Itself
Bishop Barron on the Coronavirus Quarantine
The Coronavirus and Sitting Quietly in a Room Alone
Heaven’s Last Best Gift: Marriage as the Final End in Persuasion
The Way of Shame: Moral Education in Northanger Abbey
Foundations Once Destroyed: The Importance of Principle in “Mansfield Park”
Centered on Christ: A Spirituality of Evangelization
Hidden Figures: The Conundrum of Black Catholicism
When Flannery O’Connor Schooled the English Professors
Your Story and Mine: Why Everyone Should Read Classic Literature
Richard Dawkins’ Philosophical Offenses: A Review of “Outgrowing God”
On Being Protected: What I Learned from Evelyn Waugh’s Mr. Crouchback
Making a Holy Hour? Here Are Some Reading Recommendations for Adoration
Boyagoda and the Need for More Imaginatives
The Shock of Sanctity
Camille Paglia and Cultural Appraisal
Saint Augustine: Ever Ancient and Yet Ever New
On Reclaiming a Lost Patrimony: “My Father Left Me Ireland”
The Story Behind Flannery O’Connor’s Stories
The Cardinal Who Loves Chesterton: An Interview with Cardinal Thomas Collins
Mystery, Manners, and the Rediscovery of Great Literature
“Counterfeit Christs”: An Interview with Trent Horn
