How Beatrice’s Beauty Led Dante to God
The beauty that Dante sees shimmering upon the face of Beatrice is not some momentary bewitchment or spell, but the real truth about her.
The beauty that Dante sees shimmering upon the face of Beatrice is not some momentary bewitchment or spell, but the real truth about her.
COMMENTARY: An age that can’t think objectively or love self-sacrificially can still be touched by beauty.
COMMENTARY: The beloved film echoes a truth taught from the manger and proclaimed by the martyrs: Death cannot stop true love.
COMMENTARY: Of all the diabolical smears in the world, none have the sticking power of false witness, when people want to believe it.
Modernity has dulled our sense of the sacred. Here’s how it happened — and how beauty, faith and worship can reignite it.
The Bible, like life, must not be read merely literally but literarily.
The Catholic Church has the oldest intellectual tradition in history. So why do we let our kids leave with only flimsy caricatures of the faith?
COMMENTARY: ‘Anyone who is so progressive,’ says the Second Epistle of John, ‘as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God; whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and the Son.’
The transcendentals are nothing less than a glorious trinity of trinities
During his address, the Pope emphasized the media’s mission of service to the public good.
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