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T.S. Eliot???s complete simplicity
1+ week, 4+ day ago (111+ words) In T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, Lyndall Gordon plunders the various works of her subject to show how suffused they are with the travails of the life, especially the life’s The post T.S. Eliot’s complete simplicity appeared first on The Catholic…...
Is Religious Faith Foolishness??? or Wisdom?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (463+ words) Msgr. Charles Fink on Friday, August 28, 2026 Why is there something rather than nothing? Why is that something such that it has the remarkable capacity to evolve into the complex yet orderly universe we behold, so orderly that predictability and science…...
The Pelagian Drinking Song
2+ week, 4+ day ago (272+ words) Hilaire Belloc on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 Pelagius lived at Kardanoel And taught a doctrine there How, whether you went to heaven or to hell It was your own affair. It had nothing to do with the Church, my boy, But was…...
A giant on the shoulders of giants
3+ week, 5+ day ago (61+ words) J. C. Scharl, Public Discourse on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 Petrarch is one of those strange humanists whose names, in a cruel inversion of the classical model of honor, have outlived any knowledge of their deeds. How not to read the story of the…...