After the dreadful news of the satanic-motivated vandalizing of the Carmelite Shrine of Holy Hill in June, it is with double pleasure that we now learn that Pope Benedict has named Holy Hill, in southeastern Wisconsin, a Minor Basilica.
Here’s from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee report:
“This is a blessing and Holy Hill is a national treasure [...]

There are so very many reasons for the Catholic reader to drink deeply of “the Classics”, not the least of which is that so much of the Western Canon, even when written by non-Catholics and (even) relatively un-religious people, is ultimately Christian and even Catholic in its root.
So it is with Charles Dickens, arguably the [...]

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This week’s Publishers Weekly includes an article entitled, “New in Religion: Anti-Religion“. It begins:
It was probably inevitable. After the super-soaking of American politics and culture with religion in recent years, a new subcategory rises up—anti-religion book. Fall brings a striking number of impassioned critiques of religion—any religion, but Christianity in particular—and calls for a [...]

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Dappled Things, a new literary magazine that aims to nurture talent among young Catholic poets, essayists, storytellers, photographers, and artists, recently launched its third issue online (www.dappledthings.org) and is currently working towards releasing a print edition next December. The magazine seeks to feed the faith and delight the imagination of readers of [...]

The New York Times has published an important little op ed piece by historian Tony Horwitz that should remind Catholics especially, whatever their take on this issue, or national origin, that at least some of the anti-immigration rhetoric being thrown around right now partakes of a peculiar historical amnesia and the prejudice many Americans have [...]