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How Dante Can Save Your Life
How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem © 2015 Rod Dreher 322 pages Selected Quotations How Dante Can Save Your Life is one man’s account of how that Renaissance poet’s epic tale of a … Continue reading
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Tagged American South, Catholicism, Christianity, Classics and Literary, Medieval, Orthodoxy, Rod Dreher, virtue
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Of Romans, manly saints, and the beginning of the end
I spent much of August crawling through the first volume of Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I was very careful, in making my list, that I specified “Volume I”: I had little interest in trying … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", Catholicism, history, Of Boys and Men, Rome, survey
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Church of Spies
Church of Spies: The Vatican’s Secret War Against Hitler© 2015 Mark Riebling384 pages The Catholic Church was one of Hitler’s earliest enemies, barring its members from participating in the Nazi party and publicly condemning Hitler’s early actions once he had … Continue reading
Wisdom and Innocence
Wisdom and Innocence: A Life Of G.K. Chesterton © 1996 Joseph Pearce 540 pages “I cannot help but thinking you were England — the Merry, chivalrous, simple-hearted, fearless England that I loved.” – an old friend’s letter to Chesteron Mention … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, Britain, Catholicism, English Literature, GK Chesterton, Joseph Pearce
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My Life with the Saints
My Life with the Saints© 2007 James Martin, SJ414 pages The church I grew up in consistently referred to Rome as the whore of Babylon, so needless to say I didn’t learn anything about saints. I knew Biblical personalities, sure, … Continue reading
The Irish Soldiers of Mexico
The Irish Soldiers of Mexico© 1997 Michael Hogan298 pages And it was there in the pueblos and the hillsidesThat I saw the mistake I had madePart of a conquering army, with the morals of a bayonet brigadeAnd amidst all these … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Catholicism, history, Ireland, Mexico, military
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Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth
Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth© 2002 Brad Birzer255 pages How better to kick off Read of England than by visiting the world of Tolkien, who has enraptured readers for decade after decade now? Tolkien is not merely an English writer; … Continue reading
The Benedict Option
The Benedict Option © 2017 Rod Dreher 269 pages Christendom has fallen; long live Christendom. In The Benedict Option, Rob Dreher argues that the Christian church in the United States is at a crisis point and must now think … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholicism, Christianity, localism, monastics, Orthodoxy, praxis, religion, Rod Dreher
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Real Music
Real Music: A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church267 pages© 2016 Anthony Esolen In his book Out of the Ashes: Restoring American Culture, Anthony Esolen devoted an entire chapter solely to music. Here he does one better! To … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Esolen, art, Catholicism, Christianity, music, poetry, religion
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The Gargoyle Code
The Gargoyle Code: Lenten Dispatches Between a Master Dementor and his Diabolical Trainee© 2009 Dwight Longenecker103 pages The Gargoyle Code is a modern sequel-in-spirit of C.S. Lewis’ much-lauded classic, The Screwtape Letters, in which a senior demon mentors a junior … Continue reading