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Death to the Minds of Men: the “Gospel” of 1984
(For those of you who are not familiar with the book 1984, be forewarned: plot spoilers ahead!) How It Started I first read George Orwell’s 1984 when I was thirteen. Though I did get somewhat bogged...
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Shusaku Endo’s Silence and the Divine Command to Sin
Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence is one of the most unsettling novels a Catholic could read. Recounting the story of Portuguese Jesuits facing martyrdom and persecution in seventeenth-century Japan, Endo...
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What is the relationship of grammar to the truth? People hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is they love in place of the truth. They love truth when she shines on them and hate her when she...
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In the throes of the 2021 civil paralysis, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) redefined the word “vaccine” because the standing definition did not seem to properly apply to COVID-19...
View ArticleWhen History Became Legend, and Legend Became Myth
The title of this article comes from one of the opening lines of the book “The Fellowship of the Ring”, the first, in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy of books written by JRR Tolkien. The full quote is...
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