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,…
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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…
It’s been 20 years since the film was released, but only now I read The Theology of The Passion of the Christ, by Monica Migliorino Miller. Subtitled, “A serious, scene by scene, in-depth theological study of the Mel Gibson film…
New year, new books to be read. Here are a few suggestions. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) . I’ve heard many amazing people say Chesterton rearranged their brain. That was my experience as well. Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man will be…
The Waters of Siloe, written by Thomas Merton in 1949, is the third of his works to be published after entering the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani, the first being his extraordinary autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, and the second being…