Milton’s Error in the Eclipse of the Epic

The Puritan John Milton adopted pagan poetic forms for his Paradise Lost. The model for purely Christian poetry, therefore, lies not in Milton but in a feeble Florentine: Dante Alighieri.

Social Pressure On the Priest

Catholic priests are under constant social scrutiny. When a priest sins, society sees the Church sinning. Fortunately, St. Thérèse offers some consolation on this cross.

How to Crash a Crystal Castle

On the 430th birthday of René Descartes, we reconsider his radical Skepticism to find in it a fundamentally religious concept: conversion.

Death of the God Delusion

On the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, we look into Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion" to find misquotations, miscategorizations, and other errors.

Sonnet II

"Mistake, Marie, this not for psalm nor song..."

Gaze Beauty, Glimpse God

In an age of Bishop Barron, Beauty, as one of the three Transcendentals, is returning to our society, and giving us again a glimpse at God after centuries of iconoclasm and industrialization.

Sonnet I

"When I consider how my light is spent..."