Inspiring Faith and Creativity & Exploring the Arts through a Spiritual Lens
Click here to read the introduction, and read to read the previous section. The Grand Inquisitor says to Jesus, “you did not want to enslave man by miracle and thirsted for faith that is free,…
By Leah Fisher For the week of Thomas More's birthday, a story about his legacy and climactic choices. King Henry VIII pressed his palms firmly on the wide stone sill of the open window and…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous section. The Grand Inquisitor points out that only a few tens of thousands are really strong enough to follow Christ. The rest, the…
By Sean Earner January 30, 2024, marks 375 years since the death of Charles I. Piety is an all-serving, all-mastering virtue by which to inhabit both the modern and the postmodern present alike. Its homely humility…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous section. The Grand Inquisitor thinks that what matters is earthly happiness, but that Christ’s message does not bring happiness to this world. This…
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…
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…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. I first read Dostoevsky’s Demons (AKA The Possessed) in English and didn’t much like it. If I had not later learned Russian,…
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…
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…
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