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• "Finally! St. Joseph has his own movie!"
• My first guest appearance on Andrew Sullivan's blog
• Who knew?!
• The Network Combo Deal: Good at dissenting, bad at counting!
• Benedict, Bonaventure, and Joachim
• "Do not be fooled. Nothing has changed."
• If the Pope is responsible, what about the Secretary of Education?
• "In the dark night of the Cross all the greatness of divine love appears..."
• First Things and Ignatius Press invite you...
• Term of the Week: "ecclesiastical promiscuity"
• Benedict XVI's first beatification: John Henry Newman, in England, September 2010
• Abp. Chaput laments "long, unpleasant and too often dishonest national health-care debate..."
• Damning with very faint, dissenting praise
• New blog: The New Theological Movement
• "And the prophecy most necessary today is that of faithfulness"
• "The Pope is pretty unassailable. He is not elected..."
• On Chesterton's Catholic Church and Conversion
• A simple, effective, and disgusting strategy
• And Much More!
• Hardships and Sonships: A Lenten Reflection | Carl E. Olson | A Scriptural Reflection on the Fourth Sunday
of Lent.
• What Is Success For a Priest? Presence and Not
Production | Fr. Alvaro Delgado | We cannot ignore the message of the Gospel's hidden dynamism.
• Sexual Orientation and the Catholic Church | Dr. Charles E. Rice | The column The Notre Dame Observer refused
to publish.
• "Follow Me!" | Francis Cardinal Arinze | The Introduction to
Meeting Jesus and Following Him: A Retreat Given to Pope Benedict XVI and the
Papal Household .
• Would Jesus Be in the Church Today? | Christoph Cardinal Schönborn | An excerpt from
Who Needs God? Barbara Stöckl in Conversation with Christoph Cardinal Schonborn.
• The Symbol of Woman | Gertrude von le Fort | The Introduction to the classic work,
The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine.
• The Cross, The Key to the Glory of Heaven | Carl E. Olson | A Scriptural
reflection on the Second Sunday of Lent.
• Truth, Freedom, and Sincerity | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | Many people are sincere--and sincerely wrong.
• Who Creates Anew? A Lenten Reflection | Carl E. Olson | A Scriptural reflection for
the first Sunday of Lent.
• The Founders: How Christian Were They? | Dr. Gary Scott Smith | What did the founders
of the U.S. really believe about God?
• The New Court of the Gentiles: On the Gospel and the Internet | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | The Pope, priests, and new
technologies.
• A Failure of
Leadership | Michael Kelly | Benedict XVI has harsh words for Irish bishops following summit on abuse.
• Lent: Why the Christian Must Deny Himself | Brother Austin G. Murphy, O.S.B. | "What am I giving
up for Lent? And why?"
• A New Conservatism? | Anthony
Esolen | Any new conservatism in America will be Catholic (or Christian at least) or it will not be at all.
• A "Bard's-eye" View | Joseph Pearce | The Preface and Prologue to
Through Shakespeare's Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in the Plays.
• The Seminary as Nazareth: Formation in a School of Prayer | Dn. James Keating | How communion with the heart Christ may be
established, inviting the seminarian to enter Nazareth and live there with the Holy Family.
• A New Christian Republic of Letters | Bradley J. Birzer | What is the future of the Catholic intellectual movement?
• Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love? Why This Gen-Xer Is a Priest | Fr. John Cihak, S.T.D.
• Becoming a Man of God | interview with Fr. Larry Richards
• Letter of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI Proclaiming a Year for Priests on the 150th Anniversary
of the "Dies Natalis" of the Cure of Ars
• St. John Vianney's Pastoral Plan | Fr. John Cihak
• The Blessed Virgin Mary's Role in the Celibate Priest's Spousal and Paternal Love | Fr. John Cihak
• Surrendering to the Healing Power of Christ's Own Chastity | Dn. James Keating, Ph.D.
• Lord, Teach Us To Pray | Fr. Jerome Bertram
• "We can always follow Peter" | Dom Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori
• The Decline of Dogma and the Decline of Church Membership | Ronald Knox
• Jacques Maritain and Dignitatis Humanae: | Brian Jones, M.A.
• Introducing Kant | Peter Kreeft
• The Better We Reason, the Nearer We Come to Truth | Richard Purtill
• God and Man at the National Prayer Breakfast | Dr. Paul
Kengor
• The Wolves Roamed Freely | Michael
Kelly
• The First Vocation Crisis | Jeff
Ziegler
• The Religion of Liberalism, Or Why Freedom and Equality Aren't Ultimate Goals | An interview with James Kalb
• Faulty Dichotomies: Fort Hood and Reverse Racism | Dr. Jose Yulo
• St.
Thomas and Chesterton on Law, Human and Divine | Thomas Storck
• The Problem of the Plantagenets | G. K. Chesterton
• G. K. Chesterton on Dan Brown: The Interview | Carl E. Olson
• The School of Ronald Knox | David Rooney
• The Mind of Knox | David Rooney
• The Human Family and the Holy Family | G. K. Chesterton
• Jansenism, the Liturgy and Ireland | Rev. Brian Van Hove, S.J.
• When the Sun Turned Black | Paul Glynn, S.M.
• A Selection from Book Four of Set All Afire: A Novel about Saint Francis Xavier | Louis de Wohl
• "All of life is Advent": On the life and death of Alfred Delp, S.J. | Abtei St. Walburg
• The opening pages of Catherine of Siena | Sigrid Undset
• Historical Distortions and The Templars | Piers Paul Read
• Humble Friend of the Poor | Sandra
Miesel
• The Apostle to the Lepers | Sandra
Miesel
• "You Have Not Chosen Me, But I Have Chosen You..." | An interview with Donna Steichen
• Rescuing the
World--10,000 Students at a Time | Elenor K. Schoen
• The Challenge of Being a Serious Historical Novelist | Lucy Beckett
• A Must Read Papal Thriller | Piers Paul Read
• Learning the Liturgy From the Saints | Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P.
• "From the Free Will of God": On Why Anything and Everything Exists
• McInerny>
• On "Believing" Atheists
• On Christmas: Each of Us Is a Salvation History
• The Nobel Speech
• The "Hood" Over Our Eyes: Are We Doomed As a Country?
• The Ambiguity of Islam
• "Working Out His Salvation with Fear and Trembling in Mexico" | An interview
with C. Theodore Murr
• "The Best Books I Read in 2009..." | Ignatius Press Authors, Editors, and Friends
• Harry Sylvester's "Novel of Conversion" | Philip Jenkins
• Bringing Back Latin | Dr. Mark J. Clark
• The Roots of Culture | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.
• The Cross and the Stars | Sandra Miesel
• Vianney: The Drama | An Interview with Leonardo Defilippis
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Through Shakespeare's Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in the Plays
by Joseph Pearce
Fulfilling the promise he made in his previous book, The Quest for Shakespeare,
bestselling literary writer Joseph Pearce analyzes in this volume three of Shakespeare's immortal
plays--The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet and King Lear--in order to uncover the Bard's Catholic beliefs. In The Quest for Shakespeare, which has been made
into an EWTN television series, Pearce delved into the known biographical evidence for Shakespeare's Catholicism. Here the popular and provocative author digs into
the plays, which were written and first performed during the English crown's persecution of Catholics. English history and literature were taught for generations through
the prism of English Protestantism. Of late both of these fields have been dominated in universities and academic presses by modern scholars with filters and
interpretations of their own. Though the evidence for Shakespeare's Catholicism has been studied before now, thanks, in part, to the unique contribution of
Joseph Pearce, the Bard's genius is being analyzed in the open air of the public arena, the very place where Shakespeare intended his dramas to entertain and edify.
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