Spring, Spring, Spring
By Amanda Pizzolatto Spring, it won’t be long before the hills are covered in green. Spring, I want to roll in all the scents that flowers bring. Spring, I want to enjoy the sights,…
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Why Ramadan is Considered the Blessed Month
By Hussain Usman Datti ALLAH in his infinite blessing and mercy gave Muslims one month out of the twelve month in a year, in which they should devote to his worship by prayers, recitation of …
Day of St. Patrick
By Amanda Pizzolatto Good luck charms and three-leaf clovers Seeing the color green plastered all over With hints of gold for leprechaun treasure And kegs of beer for clurichaun pleasure Orange and white complete…
The Priest’s Passion
“When you see me standing up there, mumbling to myself and apparently taking no notice of you, all dressed up in silk like a great pin cushion, you mustn’t think of me as something quite…
The Philosophy of Dostoevsky Chapter 10: Grand Inquisitor (Part 5)
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous section. The Grand Inquisitor’s criticism of Jesus is that he was not political. He should have made his kingdom of this world. He…
Tolkien Before Jackson: A Look at Early Adaptations Part 7
The Keepers (1991, directed by Natalya Serebryakova) Click here to read 6. Khraniteli, better known by its transliterated title The Keepers (as in “The Keepers of the Ring”) was a two-part miniseries released on Lengingrad…
“Now Come the Days of the King!”: Aragorn as a Figure of Christ the King in the Lord of the Rings
By Thomas J. McIntyre John Ronald Ruel (hereafter referred to as J.R.R.) Tolkien, author of the epic Lord of the Rings saga, was a devout Catholic. He passed to his eternal reward in 1973, almost four…
The Philosophy of Dostoevsky Chapter 10: Grand Inquisitor (Part 1)
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. Each of Dostoevsky’s final five novels is long. They are long in terms of the number of pages, but not only long…
The Philosophy of Dostoevsky Chapter 8: Raskolnikov and Abraham as Knights of Faith or Murderers
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. In Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov gets into a discussion with Porfiry, the police investigator, about an article Raskolnikov wrote for a…
The Endless Knot of Richard II
By Giovanni Costabile “When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.” (John 6:15 KJV) In the year…