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05/31/2022
Whispering Glades is the mock cemetery created by Waugh to show how the make- believe world of Hollywood plays out in the business of death.
Whispering Glades is the mock cemetery created by Waugh to show how the make- believe world of Hollywood plays out in the business of death.
The world into which Evelyn Waugh was born was in turmoil. Born in 1903, he was a child during WWI. England after the war was
Artists are the first in a culture to sense change. They see the small hints of coming storms long before they appear over the horizon.
In order for a Catholic writer to reach a wide audience with his Catholic message, he must rarely mention the faith. There are many for
Our hero, Ivan Denisovich, is not an extraordinary man. He lives in the midst of a world where there is not enough to eat, in
DescriptionWhen the manuscript for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich landed on the desk of the editor at Russia’s premier literary magazine, he
Solzhenitsyn spent 1945 – 1953 in the gulag prisons. Once released, he went to a tiny village to teach mathematics where no one paid attention
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918, one year after the Communist revolution and one year after the apparitions at Fatima. He father was an artillery
Dr. White’s concluding remarks about T. S. Eliot include a reading of a portion of Ash Wednesday, a poem that in White’s analysis concerns a soul
In general remarks about T. S. Eliot and the factors that inspired him to write The Wasteland, Dr. White draws some comparisons to his (White’s)
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.