This article originally appeared in the January 2025 edition of The Catholic Telegraph. A few months ago, I was struck by a seemingly...

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As originally published in The Catholic Telegraph Magazine Invitation to Prayer: “In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on...

Fragment VII In Praise of Good Will Brothers and sisters strive to live for an ideal outside of themselves, and within each...

Fragment VI Coherence There is no universal way of looking at things, or, more precisely, none that a human can comprehend, because...

Fragment V The Divine Image Before you were born your face was like a star seen from galaxies away, and if someone were to...

Fragment IV On Confronting One’s Sins … What a man can do when all inhibitions are removed, when moral norms evaporate and...

Fragment III The Axis of Life A life, at any given moment, may be understood in terms of its experience and experience only. Experience...

Fragment II Animus            To live is to suffer; to live meaningfully is to live in a way that justifies that suffering. How, even if...

By Ivan Popov Preface , by Iliana Popov. For her brother August.            I have been working on this for a while (a little over a...

(As stated in text message) Q: “Ending was a bit confusing for me. The collision of Owen and Matthew after the death of Slack in...

I am your reed, sweet shepherd, glad to be. Now, if you will, breathe out your joy in me And make bright song. Or fill me with the soft...

Chapter I Windows and Mirrors In which, in the late spring of the year two thousand and nineteen, Owen finds a mysterious book in a...

8 ½ A Hidden Life (cinema perfected—if one has a heart, what tears must be shed!) A Separation A Serious Man A Streetcar Named Desire The...