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Let’s contemplate contemplation
“Contemplation,” like “awesome,” is one of those serious and solemn words that has drifted into a casual understanding and use in our daily speak.
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James K. Hanna
Imagining a Better World: Art and Wartime
Naples, Church, William Congdon
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James K. Hanna
AI tries to ruin the "Sunday Drive"
It may be the best part of a random Sunday drive: you never know what you'll discover.
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“It’s Sunday! You should be in church!”
— Andy Powell, November 10, 2024
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US Army Chaplain Msgr. Edward Vattmann
On this Veterans Day
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Dorothy Day
127th Anniversary of her birth
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"Edge of Belief"
UFOs, Aliens, and the Catholic Imagination
Lost Souls Cemetery
On this All Souls Day …
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October 2024

Vulgarity in Literature
Huxley: None in Flaubert
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James K. Hanna
Lamy of Santa Fe
A friend recently passed along a biography of the French-born Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888): Pulitzer Prize (for History) winning author Paul Horgan’s…
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The Steepest Public Street
It’s not in San Francisco
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A sad anniversary
the death of Jack Kerouc in the middle ground between light and shadow
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