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Vital Works Reconsidered

Fragmented Lives of Incomplete Reckoning
November 2019Man’s efforts are lost if they are not embedded in and do not proceed from the eternal perspective, without which they remain fragmented impulses.
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Your Guide to the Interior Life
May 2019The Imitation is the finest work of Catholic spirituality. Thomas à Kempis’s voice speaks to us today with the same authority that his monks heard nearly six centuries ago.
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A Surrender Total & Complete
May 2016In preparation to embrace God’s providence, Fr. Caussade has us renounce our self-love, our will, our efforts, our plans and dreams, our ambitions, and our fears, anxieties, and doubts.
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Average Is Not Normal
January-February 2015Normal signifies the way things ought to be, according to a fixed moral or divine standard. Average frequently denotes middle in the sense of mediocrity.
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Through a Lens, Darkly
December 2014Excessive confidence in the supposedly foolproof technical quality of America’s nuclear-weapon system is the subject of the classic thriller "Fail-Safe."
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A Thomistic Vision of Man's Final End
November 2014Dante relied heavily on the philosophy of Aquinas to construct his epic. The Divine Comedy has been referred to as the “Summa in verse.”
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Saints of Social Revolution
December 2011Tolstoy was a world-class novelist and a great and influential heretic: His avant-garde views heralded today’s liberal and relativistic Christians.
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The Other War We Lost in Vietnam
December 1991President Johnson was seduced by his macho superpatriotism into the morass of Vietnam, and so the war against poverty was lost too.
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Orthodoxy — as Opposed to Fundamentalism, Theological Liberalism & Integralism
May 1991 VIEW ARTICLE
That Incomprehensible Mystery at the Heart of All Things
January-February 1991Like Oedipus, we humans are prone to suppose that we can understand all things on earth — perhaps in heaven also — and can thereby control them.
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Intellectual Opportunism & the Arteriosclerosis of the American Intelligentsia
April 1990 VIEW ARTICLE

The Conspiratorial World View of Whittaker Chambers
November 1989The road from the Hiss-Chambers case to an American president’s advocacy of the idea of the Evil Empire was straight, though slow.
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