Category: Literature
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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. For the love of the Lord and the good of souls, how can we help reverse this trend?
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The Diary of a Country Priest Today
Have you ever doubted God’s presence with you in times of trouble? 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, through the intrinsic genius of its author Georges Prosper Remi (1907–1983) better known as Hergé.
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Book Club: 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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Book Club: The Catholic Doctrine of the Angels
A short enough book, World Invisible, The Catholic Doctrine of the Angels by Fr John Saward provides a timely synthesis of the perennial faith of Holy Church regarding God’s incorporeal creatures. The reader is led along a triple thread combining the theology of St Thomas Aquinas, Dante’s poetry, and paintings by Sandro Botticelli. Twentieth century Thomistic…