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Jan C. Bentz
How the monasteries made Britain
Joseph Kelly's 'Long Reign of Silence' argues that monasteries shaped Britain's learning, government and culture – and that their destruction transformed the nation
Oxford and the surviving Marian imagination of medieval England
From New College to Blackfriars, Oxford’s chapels, gatehouses and libraries retain traces of a Marian culture that once shaped the intellectual life of the university
Beyond therapy: the soul’s need for God
From Dante to Viktor Frankl, the search for meaning points beyond psychological wellbeing towards the soul’s ultimate end in God
Beyond conversion: Newman’s forgotten priority
St John Henry Newman warned that the Church should not measure its vitality by conversions alone, but by the formation of a Catholic mind
Interview with Joseph Pearce: Why Middle-earth is not a pagan myth
Joseph Pearce and Jan C Bentz examine the theological vision in Tolkien’s fiction, from providence and liturgy to the Catholic imagination
Hungary after Orbán
Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat marks a political turning point, but his legacy and Péter Magyar’s programme resist easy interpretation
The return of the patron
A young company seeks to restore the ancient relationship between artist and patron, inviting ordinary people to commission works of lasting beauty
Sacramental imagination and the recovery of enchantment
Modernity claims to have stripped the world of meaning, but Tolkien offers a vision in which reality remains charged with significance
“Ballet can elevate body and soul together”
In this interview, Claire Kretzschmar discusses perfection, brokenness and the power of classical ballet to restore the sacred imagination
Rediscovering Ida Friederike Görres: the Catholic thinker the sexual revolution forgot
Jan C Bentz interviews translator Jennifer S Bryson about the German writer who foresaw the cultural battle over marriage before the upheavals of the 1960s
Aquinas and the question of tyrannicide
The death of Ayatollah Khamenei recalls an ancient moral dilemma that St Thomas Aquinas approaches with caution and weight
Jacob Rees-Mogg: why institutions still matter
In conversation with the Catholic Herald, Sir Jacob reflects on monarchy, Brexit, NATO and the papacy, arguing that institutions – not personalities – are the true guardians of liberty and faith
Why beauty belongs at the heart of worship
In conversation with Jan C Bentz, Art historian Elizabeth Lev explains how the Church lost the visual language of faith – and how beauty can teach it again
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