The Colossus of Lombardy: Saint Charles Borromeo
"This visitation had been sent as a chastisement for sin."
The Resurrection of Lazarus from the Dead. The Surprising Interpretation of Saint Ambrose of Milan
"For He raised not Lazarus alone, but the faith of all."
Fighting the Snail: How Medieval People Thought
Every being or thing in nature has a divine reason.
A Catastrophic Crisis: the Exodus of Young Catholics and the Contraceptive Mentality
How can a Catholic couple claim to truly believe if the spouses suspend their trust in Holy Providence?
Astronomy and Liturgy: the Symbolic Meanings of the Date of Easter
No gesture or liturgical object is without symbolic (i.e., mystical) significance.
Tolkien’s Secret Fire and the Sacred Heart
"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor."
Hemingway’s Faith: the Story of a Wandering Soul
Sanctity is not about being perfect but about struggling.
The Catholic Vision of Novalis
Above: Caspar David Friedrich‘s Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808). Friedrich was influenced by Novalis’s aesthetic theories. Last year, Angelico Press published one of the most intriguing theoretical texts by the poetic genius of 18th-century Germany, Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772–1801), better known under the pen name Novalis. Titled Christendom or Europe?, it was included…