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…
The Greatest Eastern Apologist for Pontifical Authority: Vladimir Solovyov
Above: Lipetsk, Russia Published in Paris in 1885, in order to protect the author from possible persecution by the Russian imperial authorities, Solovyov’s work La Russie et l’Église universelle (Russia and the Universal Church) [1] contains a section whose reading played a decisive role in my conversion from Eastern Orthodoxy to Rome. This part of…
Sacred Initiation and Baptismal Symbolism in Tolkien’s Stories
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
Saint Bonaventure and the Number of the Beast
He identified the rationalistic theology influenced by the rise of Aristotelianism with the “smoke rising from the abyss” (Apocalypse 9:21).
Ratzinger & Tolkien on the Novus Ordo and Organic Development
Tolkien himself was a staunch opponent of technical modernization.
