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The Lord of the Rings, Adventure of Discipleship, Daniel Keating

Facing Trials with Christ, Grace, and . . . The Lord of the Rings

By Daniel A. Keating Photo Credit: Torsten Dederichs Though the story begins lightheartedly, there is nothing lighthearted about the kind of suffering that Frodo Baggins ...
philosophy, virtue ethics, on love and virtue

The Return to Virtue

By Michael S. Sherwin The last forty years have witnessed a remarkable and growing interest in virtue ethics. Moral theologians have rightly celebrated this new ...
Thomas Aquinas, excellence, virtue, habit, michael sherwin

Reclaiming the Excellence of Virtue

By Michael S. Sherwin Photo Credit: TJ Dragotta In contemporary parlance, the term habit has come to mean a psychological groove that diminishes freedom and ...

The Adoration of the Magi

By Madeleine Stebbins The Adoration of the Magi (1440, 1460), Fra Angelico, completed by Filippo Lippi, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States The ...

Come Again?: The Eucharist and the Fulfillment of the Kingdom

By Scott Hahn Jesus promised repeatedly that the kingdom was coming without delay. Midway through the “little apocalypse” of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus says: “Truly, I ...
theotokos, Mary, Solemnity of Mary

The Burning Bush: Theotókos in the Old Testament

By Curtis J. Mitch (writer, editor, and research fellow at the St. Paul Center) Today the Catholic Church celebrates Mary as “the Mother of God.” Christians ...

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