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A Forgotten Catholic Novelist
Though he is almost forgotten today, the Romantic novelist Francis Marion Crawford, a Catholic convert, outsold his friend Henry James in the early twentieth century. Undergraduates at the University...
Les Murray the Misfit Poet
When the great Australian poet Les Murray died in April 2019, he left an incomplete volume of new work in his desk drawer. Murray preferred the typewriter and avoided...
The Enduring Appeal of The Nutcracker
In 1926, Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the renowned ballet company Ballets Russes, hired Polish-born impresario and ballet director Julian Braunsweg to produce a performance at the prominent Deutsches Künstlertheater...
Remembering Gerald Russello (1971–2021)
A few years ago, a mutual friend organized a group lunch in midtown Manhattan for a young man new to the city, fresh out of a selective university, and...
Training the Will on the Football Field
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen once remarked that the football field is the only place on a school campus that trains the will. Teachers impart knowledge, but this “can create...
A Catholic Wedding
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