Upon the sudden death of his mother, Jack Benton, her only child, returns home to help settle her affairs. Though close to his mother, Jack has been living in Berlin, immersed in his career as an international lawyer, and hasn’t been home in two years. In a long letter his mother left him, Jack learns […]
Inspired by the father of all monks, Saint Antony of the Desert, a group of Irish Catholic monks set sail more than 1,400 years ago to discover a “desert in the pathless sea.” They sought an island that, while physically set apart could also be made holy—made Catholic—by God working through those willing monks and […]
In Tales From Wakken Wood, by E.P. Cowley, bullies pick on Peter Thornburg because of his shining silver eyes. Because of that, his dad sent him to live with relatives on the island. But something there does not add up. Strange creatures appear and disappear out of the corner of his eye. Stores are ransacked […]
Nyansa Classical Community provides classical, Christian curricula and programming designed to connect with and draw students from diverse backgrounds into the beauty of classical literature and the Great Conversation. Their curricula and programming cultivates the poetic and moral imaginations, deepens enjoyment of classical literature, language, and art and encourages students to cultivate truth, goodness, and […]
In Michael Pakaluk’s The Shock of Holiness, moms at Mass are heroes—not unlike the soldiers who landed at Iwo Jima. Children open us up to radical charity—the kind lived by martyrs. Obscure priests in backwoods France can change the world—not by debating, but by loving God. And a little bottle of holy water—available for free […]
Ida Friederike Görres was one of the brightest, most penetrating and colorful Catholic writers in twentieth-century Europe. Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), at her funeral, labeled her a “brave and faithful woman,” with “an insightful certainty . . . about the pressing questions and tasks of the Church today.” Yet her work is almost entirely […]
Karl Marx: The Divine Tragedy presents a groundbreaking exploration of Karl Marx’s life, revealing the man not just as a revolutionary thinker, but as a flawed prophet consumed by his own radical vision. Robert Orlando traces Marx’s descent through the lens of Dante’s Divine Comedy. unveiling a deeply spiritual and haunting journey through the inferno […]
In The Liturgical Sense of The Readings at Mass – Year A, David L. Gray invites readers to rediscover the profound beauty and meaning of the Sunday Mass readings. With clarity and reverence, Gray explores how each reading fits into the tapestry of the liturgical calendar, unveiling connections between Scripture, tradition, and the lived experience […]
