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“All men by nature desire to know.” Aristotle’s opening line of the Metaphysics was true of humans then and is true of humans now. Children still explore the front lawn on summer mornings,...

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The Lord is on my head like a crown, And I shall never be without Him. They have woven for me a crown of truth, And it caused Your branches to blossom in me. For it is not like a parched crown t...

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Maturity is a difficult word to define. It’s also a difficult state to reach definitively, saying to ourselves, “Finally, I’ve arrived!” How do we know when we’re considered mature? Do...

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Spirituality. Fashion. Resistance. One sees many things while biking in Washington, D.C., but these three words from a mural (pictured above) jumped out to me immediately. I suppose that was the...

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This game I’ll call “Guess This Conservative Author,” and it only works if played by the rules. Without reading ahead, consider these select criticisms of modernity: Against self-serving p...

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Earlier this month I was part of a week-long school-wide mosaic project. Every student from pre-K through 8th helped to place tiles depicting an enormous Sacred Heart, a whole mix of Mexican til...

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Many have heard Teresa of Avila’s prayer “Let nothing disturb you… God alone suffices,” which she scribbled on a small bookmark of hers during prayer. I recently discovered, however, tha...

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Scripture is read in public to feed even children, and in secret to suspend even sublime minds in admiration. It is like a river, both shallow and deep, in which a lamb may walk and an elephant ...

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It’s said that sharks will die if they don’t keep swimming. There’s a strange lesson here for our own age. Joseph Ratzinger (no, I’m not comparing him to that shark) entered Vatican II w...

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I was driving earlier this week in rural New Hampshire, where I’m spending the summer, and I was passed on the road by a Chevy Tahoe from the mid-90s. The driver wore a cowboy hat and a bristl...

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The Word of God, solitary, magnificent amid the vicissitudes of human history, turns to me, his face shining from his vision of the Father, and speaks to me. As in all human love, only more so, ...

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Today I will be burying my grandmother. After 96 years of life, she returned to the Lord in the early morning of Easter Sunday. Despite the sadness, everyone in the family, every branch in that ...

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