Category: Culture
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Picasso’s Guernica or, This Is Not A Corrida
By Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP Pablo Picasso died fifty years ago last year but Holy Saturday eclipsed his anniversary. On April 8, 2023 Catholics were preparing for the Resurrection. They were still celebrating the rising of Christ later that month when another anniversary occurred: the bombing of Guernica in northern Spain, on April 26,…
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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, through the intrinsic genius of its author Georges Prosper Remi (1907–1983) better known as Hergé.
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Unexpected 19th Century Catholic Revival
Between 1850 and 1900, the Catholic Church revitalized itself through medieval devotion, new technologies, and education, strengthening its influence despite the era’s industrialization and secularism.