Category: Culture
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Picasso’s Guernica or, This Is Not A Corrida
The bombing of Guernica in northern Spain occurred on April 26, 1937. Picasso painted a picture after the same name, becoming a turning point in his career.
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Chaste Sleuths Win By Popular Acclaim
Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are sedately married rather, but more often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion.
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Tintin and the Secret of the Elusive Priests
Fictional Belgian reporter Tintin is possibly the most significant comic strip character due to his seminal influence over that pictorial genre worldwide.
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Bl. Noël Pinot, a Shepherd for Times of Trial
Frs Franck Labbé and A. de Malleray tell the story of the exemplary pastor who died wearing his priestly vestments.
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Unexpected 19th Century Catholic Revival
The Church of the 1800s entrenched itself in its traditions and doctrines in the face of liberalism, secularism, and nationalism.