Bicycles are theologically sound. Ask Pope Francis.
Ideas
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What Moses and NASA’s Mars Rover taught me about wonder and awe.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover touched ground on the red planet on Feb. 18 and today NASA announced some of its first discoveries.
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The New York City ballet brings new life to the parable of the Prodigal Son
George Balanchine’s jarring choreography breathes new life into a parable that itself upends expectations.
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Searching for Beauty—and God—in the Age of Instagram
At the same time I haven’t been recognizing beauty every time it is before me, I also haven’t been recognizing God. What if those disconnects are related?
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Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem revealed God—through its beauty
Amanda Gorman’s poem was like a lighting flash that spoke to eternal beauty
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This Christmas, let the Swiss Guard plan your holiday menu
Authored by a member of the force that protects Pope Francis, “The Vatican Christmas Cookbook” explores the food and traditions that make for a happy holiday
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When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (maybe) spoke with the dead
‘The root of Spiritism…is the diseased moral condition of the age,’ one Catholic author wrote.
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Why are Republicans sticking with Trump? Peer pressure—and we’re all susceptible to it.
If the price of admission within your peer group is the frequent suppression of your conscience, I would like to argue that the price is too high.
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Reading C. S. Lewis in the Time of Covid
The question Lewis proposed is analogous to the one we have to deal with now: What use is it to study during wartime?
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Review: ‘The Glorias’ portrays a feminist icon in four ways (and with few flaws)
We meet Gloria the journalist, world-traveler, daughter, friend and reluctant spokeswoman of the feminist movement.