Category: Literature
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The Sacred Liturgy as a Secret Garden
An analogy between Frances Hodgson Burnett’s pre-WWI tale for children and the revelation experienced in the 2020s by adults stepping into the grace-filled haven of the traditional Roman liturgy.
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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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Falling in Eucharistic Love
Belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist has declined drastically over the past fifty years – how can we help reverse this trend?
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The Diary of a Country Priest Today
When you ponder the increasingly secularised society surrounding you are you ever tempted to wonder, ‘Why doesn’t God intervene?’
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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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Vermeer’s Angel
Armand de Malleray’s stunning prose draws the reader into a world of intrigue and uncertainty where nothing is quite as it seems.
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The Catholic Doctrine of the Angels
In ‘World Invisible’ Fr John Saward provides a timely synthesis of the perennial faith of Holy Church regarding God’s incorporeal creatures.