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Fancies Versus Fads is a 1923 collection of 30 previously published essays by G.K. Chesterton, covering a wide range of topics including modernity, feminism, divorce, poetry, drama, literature, education, progressivism, and prohibition. Here Chesterton is at his wittiest, most penetrating,…
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Originally…
Why not turn to Seinfeld for moral instruction? FIRST LESSON: OBEDIENCE SECOND LESSON: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL THIRD LESSON: VISIT THE SICK FOURTH LESSON: THOU SHALT HAVE NO STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME LESSON FIVE: HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY Reflection…
Here is how the Catechism of the Catholic Church sums up the great mystery of Jesus being True God and True Man: IN BRIEF 479 At the time appointed by God, the only Son of the Father, the eternal Word,…
The 1937 novel Descent into Hell, by Charles Williams, has a magnificent title, but was torture to read. I would describe the writer’s narrative style as relentlessly choppy: it is loaded with long, complex sentences riddled with abrupt and awkwardly placed…