For Christians, the goal of life is simple: to become a saint. That’s it. Everything else is window dressing. To become a saint means falling in love with God and enjoying his friendship in this life and the next. But how do we achieve that? One helpful way is to study the lives of men and …
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Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, which was commissioned after the pivotal Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571, a key turning point in the history of the world. Muslim forces were threatening to attack both Venice and Rome, which would likely have led to the collapse of Christian Europe. If …
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In his book Three Philosophies of Life, Dr. Peter Kreeft explains how he rediscovered St. Augustine’s Confessions: “Only once have I ever encountered a translation that made such a difference, that so opened up for me a previously closed book. That was Frank Sheed’s translation of Augustine’s Confessions, which I found to be as living …
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In June 2019, my wife and I flew to England on a pilgrimage to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary. We spent five days in London and three in Oxford. Our goal was to see and pray at all the sites associated with G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and John Henry Newman, who have each …
I just returned home from the 38th Annual G.K. Chesterton Conference, held this past weekend (August 1-3) in Kansas City, KS. It was the largest Chesterton gathering ever, with over 500 attendees from around the world, some as far as Kenya, India, and Chile. Rod Dreher offered the keynote, speaking on his much-discussed “Benedict Option” and …
