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Ambrogio Lorenzetti, “Temperance (Detail),” ca. 1338-1340 COMMENTARY: A famous saying — ‘It ain’t over over till it’s over’ — has untapped wisdom and should be recalled and applied to the current…
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COMMENTARY: April exposes the divide between a culture that fears death and a faith that finds life through it.…
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COMMENTARY: A beggar’s hand, a child’s birth — for committed communist Whittaker Chambers, these moments of love shattered the illusion of collectivist utopia.…
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Illustration based on “The Penitence of St. Jerome” by Albrecht Bouts (1520). COMMENTARY: The love of power is the opposite of the power of love — so why do we idolize strength over virtue?…
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COMMENTARY: We can learn much from books, but how do we know which books are worth reading?…
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COMMENTARY: The simplest gift, when accompanied by the right sentiment, is a gift that cannot be measured in dollars and cents.…
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COMMENTARY: Revisiting Ronald Reagan’s 1983 essay ‘Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation.’…
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COMMENTARY: ‘Anyone who is so progressive,’ says the Second Epistle of John, ‘as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God; whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and the Son.’…
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COMMENTARY: Professing what seems to be unbelievable, and suffering scorn and ridicule from the secular world, need not cause shame.…
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COMMENTARY: The message that Christ brings into the world at Gethsemane seems unrealistic, yet history bears out its truth.…
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COMMENTARY: The City of God and the City of Man will always exist on different planes.…
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Wikimedia Commons The Wedding Feast at Cana (Nozze di Cana, 1562–1563), by Paolo Veronese. COMMENTARY: Miracles do happen, and they are just another way of God speaking to his human creatures.…
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