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This essay is, like others in this issue of Dominicana, about masculinity, or what I’ll be terming “man-ness.” Since the approach of the argument will be somewhat tortuous, I figure I shou...
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I’ve never claimed to have a perfect memory, but nothing signals early-onset senility more than my increasing inability to recall basic memories of my youth (the fact that I’m not yet thirty...
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Is it better to make resolutions or to keep them? To keep them, obviously, you might huffily reply. Then why do we continue to make resolutions, seeing as we so often and easily break them? New ...
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Perhaps it’s due to the oft-decried commercialization of Christmas, but it’s awful easy to just drift toward the big day itself, pushed and pulled by the currents of consumer culture until w...
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We don’t know how to agree with people we agree with. We are reminded daily that our country is riven by disagreements and that we have little hope of crossing the many cultural, political, mo...
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One Fat Tuesday during my dissolute youth, I accepted an invitation to participate in an annual eating contest known as the Phat Man Challenge. The test: eat a 1.5 lb triple cheeseburger and a 1...
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Should joy characterize our Christian lives and evangelical efforts? The knee-jerk swiftness with which we all reply to this soft-headed question shows that we’ve come to accept the crucial i...
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It’s not unusual to hear comments and field questions about the outlandish life-choice and—with vigorous finger-waggling—“call” that have marooned me and those of my vocational ilk in ...
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Sometimes T.S. Eliot is a grade-A sad apple. “Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind / Cannot bear very much reality.” But that does seem fair: we’re fragile beings, easily broken by the bu...
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It’s called the Place of the Skull, we're told. Κρανίου Τόπος. Everything converges on this place, as a figure hangs from a cross sunk into the Skull, a hill so named on account of...
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Dominicana is happy to offer this audio recording of “A Lamp Shining In A Dark Place: Christ The Prophet.” It was given by Br. Paul Clarke, O.P. as the second installment of a three-part ser...
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What’s the difference between evangelizing and advertising? Um, a lot, you might reply. We preach not a product, but a Person: Jesus Christ, and him crucified. Jesus is not a means to happines...
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