Rescuing Our Maidens From the Culture of Death

By |2023-04-24T15:00:47-05:00April 24th, 2023|Categories: Culture, Death, Featured, Joseph Pearce, Sexuality, Timeless Essays, Virtue|

In a world where love is replaced with lust, the number of damsels in distress will increase. In such a world, we need to rescue our maidens from the dragons of the culture of death. In The Hobbit, Thorin Oakenshield gives Bilbo Baggins a beginner’s lesson on the nature of dragons, a sort of dragons for [...]

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” & Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

By |2023-04-19T16:29:28-05:00April 19th, 2023|Categories: Death, Edgar Allan Poe, Literature, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is thematically applicable to much of Poe’s work—the struggle to see the light of truth and justice that shines at the end of a dark tunnel of violence and horror. Edgar Allan Poe was missing. The year was 1849. There had been no trace of Mr. Poe for six [...]

The Homecoming Book: Hilaire Belloc’s “The Four Men”

By |2023-07-26T18:06:49-05:00November 1st, 2022|Categories: Books, David Deavel, Death, Hilaire Belloc, Senior Contributors|

All natural loves, even love of the land, must suffer death and burial in the raw world and the winter of this life. But Hilaire Belloc, who “received the sacrament of that wide and silent beauty” of his native Sussex at night, was confident that he would see it and his departed friends face to [...]

“Service of All the Dead”

By |2022-11-01T18:06:02-05:00November 1st, 2022|Categories: Death, Literature, Poetry|

Between the avenue of cypresses All in their scarlet capes and surplices Of linen, go the chaunting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. And all along the path to the cemetery The round dark heads of men crowd silently; And the black-scarfed faces of women-folk wistfully Watch at the banner of death, [...]

Anthropology & the Death of the Individual

By |2023-06-26T17:51:17-05:00October 27th, 2022|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Death, Friedrich Nietzsche, History, Philosophy, St. Thomas Aquinas, Timeless Essays, Truth, Walker Percy|

Do you believe in a higher power, something that transcends the “human organism”? If this question is trivialized or ignored, we enter the very sound and soul of despair. Anthropology is the scientific study of human beings. Philosophy, literally translated, is the love of wisdom. Philosophical anthropology, then, is the scientific study of humans for [...]

Warfare in Epic Poetry

By |2022-05-29T22:48:20-05:00May 29th, 2022|Categories: Death, Great Books, Homer, Iliad, Odyssey, Timeless Essays, War|

A culture that fails to represent, or that misrepresents its wars in all their glory, gravity, and tragedy, is a weaker polity. Epic poetry, with its stark recording of the facts and feelings of war, can give cultures and communities access to the reality of warfare and inscribe its memory on the collective consciousness and [...]

Ambassador Johnny Young: A Eulogy

By |2021-08-13T13:06:21-05:00August 13th, 2021|Categories: Death, Joseph Mussomeli, Love, Senior Contributors|

Ambassador Young Ambassador Johnny Young. Johnny. Just plain, old Johnny, as Johnny once referred to himself. And that description may be the most remarkable thing about Johnny. He was just plain, old Johnny even when he was a four-time ambassador. His Christian humility seemed to gain luster with each promotion and award. I cannot [...]

Death on Drum: Gerard Manley Hopkins & the Mystery of Suffering

By |2021-02-12T15:38:30-06:00February 12th, 2021|Categories: Death, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Joseph Pearce, Literature, Poetry, Senior Contributors|

Prompted to compose his marvelous tour de force, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” after reading the report of a shipwreck off the coast of England, the priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins gives one of the most profound and penetrating meditations on the mystery of suffering. The mystery of suffering, or the problem of pain as C.S. Lewis [...]

Euripides: Poet-Prophet of Pity

By |2021-02-03T16:32:16-06:00February 3rd, 2021|Categories: Death, Great Books, Paul Krause, Senior Contributors, Theater, War|

Responding to the great bloodshed of young men, women, and virgins he experienced during the Peloponnesian War, Euripides exposes the horrors of war and its damaging effects on humans, particularly on women, in his war plays. Euripides’s dramatic tragedies appeal to our sense of pity and call for peace. The acme of Euripides’s literary genius [...]

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