Understanding Church History (Guest: Joseph Pearce)
…of music, Prometheus says, musica intstrumentalus. That’s when we incarnate this music in such a way we can hear it. Like we’re moving sound waves, as we would now say….
Evangelical Admiration for the Medieval Church
Over Christmas break, the family and I found ourselves with a detailed 3-D jigsaw puzzle of Paris’s famous Notre Dame. While it did not take as long to complete the puzzle as it took to build the medieval cathedral (182 years, according to Wikipedia), it did present challenges. Our son-in-law, now completing a doctorate in … Read more
Reconstructing the Christian Past
Renowned historian, James Hitchcock, has long been recognized for his books and essays on U.S. politics, Roman Catholic intellectual life, and the controversial reforms of the Church’s sacred liturgy. A man of deep faith, he belongs to the great tradition of other Catholic historians such as Lord Acton and Hilaire Belloc; but unlike these predecessors, … Read more