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It’s not a petition, strictly speaking. It’s a statement of fidelity to the Catholic Church’s historic teaching…

The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology Thomas Joseph White, O.P., CUA Press Copts and Robbers…

Troilus is mentioned in the Iliad, long enough to die. Priam laments that his best sons have…

Jacques Lacan devoted considerable attention to the psychoanalytical import of the courtly love tradition, and this has…

Before Lacan and Zizek devoted attention to courtly love, there was Denis de Rougemont’s Love in the Western…

Insofar as Derrida’s thought is a thought of the ineffable, retreated sublime, the transcendent signified that escapes…

The Vatican’s recent announcement that Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn, of the…

In Rune 40 of the Finnish epic, Kalevala, the hero, Wainamoinen, is sailing with his friends to Pohjola,…

Chaucer, like Shakespeare after him, set some of his poems in ancient Greece. The “Knight’s Tale” takes…

According to C. S. Lewis (English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, 27-28), English humanists were most interested…

Tragic stories are fall stories. Whether through moral wrong or through some inadvertent hamartia, the tragic hero…

Emily, the lady-love of Chaucer’s “Knight’s Tale,” the first of the Canterbury Tales, appears in a garden, and…

The GOP Washington establishment is launching an attack on Scott Walker because he tentatively (and vaguely) suggested…

At the Center for Law and Religion Forum this month, Nate Oman has been posting on the importance…

Decline Into Silence Daniel McInerny, The Catholic Thing We Thinkers from the Gilt-Edged Margins Christian Thorne,  Fare Forward Our…