Chesterton and Bettelheim on the Fairy Tale
With Chesterton, Bettelheim sees the Beast story from the inside.
Reviews
If You Feel It, Chase It: Twisters and a Scientific Examination of Conscience
The initial purpose of Twisters is to serve as a “spiritual successor” to the story of Twister, the 1996 classic featuring Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, and Philip Seymour Hoffman among others. The main characters of our 2024 film, played by Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos, and Glen Powell, all embrace the
Reviving Love for the Eucharist
The depth of study emerging in the Eucharistic revival is helpful for Catholics to understand the roots of the most Blessed Sacrament.
Ancient Church Orders Reviewed
Paul L. Bradshaw, Early Church Orders Revisited, Joint Liturgical Studies 80 (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2015). This little book was my Christmas present to myself this year. (Along with Günter Wand’s recording of Bruckner 8 in Lübeck Cathedral – magnificent.) I’d been wanting to read it for some months, and the
Southern Harmony: The Complex and Fulfilling Theology of O Brother, Where Art Thou
Christ speaks in moments of contemplation, in moments of wandering and confusion, in the unspoken moments in which we do not allow ourselves to trust and fall.
The Magicians
I wish to begin this review by saying that The Magicians by Lev Grossman (2010, Penguin Books) ranks among my favourite books, so my criticism comes from the only place that truly good criticism can come from: fondness. Grossman’s work was first introduced to me by my closest friend, who
Saintly Insanity: The Island (2006)
God knows what he is about, Newman muses, and our part is but to cooperate with his grace, however unusual the guise in which that grace comes to us. After all as St. Paul says, “the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom” (1 Cor 1:25). This is what
“Who Do You Say That I Am?”: Greek Grammar Gives the Answer
Two years ago, I began to study Greek at the St. Irenaeus Center. Since then, I have been working my way through the New Testament in the original, reading and listening and speaking the text out loud. A few months ago, my studies raised a question about how to understand
The Anglican Mystic
“An hour’s conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.” War in Heaven, Charles Williams In the town of Oxford, there is a small tavern called the Eagle and Child, known locally as the “Bird and Baby.”
Christ the Ideal of the Priest
One of my priest classmates on an Ordination picture he gave me penned: De laudatoribus temporis acti fiemur fautores temporis laudabilis in servitio Dei. A rather free translation would be: “Just as we esteemed a time gone by as worthy of praise, may we now become agents of praise and