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Light in the Darkness
When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World nearly a century ago, he imagined future human society as a place without anxiety or suffering; a kind of safe and opulent...
To Render the Deeds of Mercy
A version of the following talk was given at the Shelbourne Easter Seminar on March 29, 2015. Shakespeare had a Catholic imagination. He loved to write about monastic and...
Toasting the Conscience
In Letter to the Duke of Norfolk, Blessed John Henry Newman suggests gamely that religion should never be the subject matter for after-dinner social toasts. But, he says “if...
