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Walk in the footsteps of Fulton Sheen
1+ week, 4+ day ago (64+ words) Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 A weeklong pilgrimage by the Fulton Sheen Movement will lead participants to the places and traditions that shaped Fulton Sheen’s life. ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’: a 20-minute documentary on the forthcoming…...
The Western way of reason
1+ week, 6+ day ago (52+ words) Victor Davis Hanson, New Criterion on Monday, August 31, 2026 On the intellectual legacy of ancient Greece and Rome. ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’: a 20-minute documentary on the forthcoming Mel Gibson film National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Dallas,…...
Charlie Kirk???s evangelical populism
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (60+ words) Dale M. Coulter, First Things on Friday, September 11, 2026 The evangelical populism that Kirk represented has only strengthened in the wake of his death. Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s Heaven in Stone and Glass – in theaters…...
American Sonnet
3+ week, 5+ day ago (212+ words) Billy Collins on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 We do not speak like Petrarch or wear a hat like Spenser and it is not fourteen lines like furrows in a small, carefully plowed field but the picture postcard, a poem on vacation, that…...
Chimes of Freedom
2+ week, 1+ day ago (900+ words) Fr. Raymond J. de Souza on Saturday, August 29, 2026 Is Bob Dylan’s music a Catholic thing? Many a homilist has quoted his 1979 song Gotta Serve Somebody, especially against the argument that unbelievers are freer because they don’t have to serve God. Dylan…...
Beatified and???Based???: Why Gen Z Catholics are falling for Fulton Sheen
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (74+ words) Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register on Thursday, September 10, 2026 Sheen continues to speak to young Catholics. He was fiery without being cruel, polished without seeming artificial and uncompromising without losing sight of the audience in front of him. Raymond and Mel…...
Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa
1+ week, 5+ day ago (267+ words) Hilaire Belloc on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold And heard a woodland music passing by: You shall receive me when the clouds…...
On his 'Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass)"
1+ week, 6+ day ago (123+ words) Dear Lord, here it is finished, this poor little mass. Have I just written sacred music, or rather, sacrilegious music? I was born for opera buffa, as you well know. The post On his ‘Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass)…...
Instruction on Sacred Music
3+ week, 2+ day ago (356+ words) St. Pius X on Friday, August 21, 2026 2. Sacred music should consequently possess, in the highest degree, the qualities proper to the liturgy, and in particular sanctity and goodness of form, which will spontaneously produce the final quality of universality. It must…...
Restless and at Home in America
3+ week, 4+ day ago (465+ words) Robert Royal on Wednesday, August 19, 2026 Now and then, we get it, for instance, Patrick J. Deneen’s new book American Odyssey: What an Ancient Story Reveals about Our Divided Souls. Many know Deneen as the author of Why Liberalism Failed and one…...