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Nick Ripatrazone
What my brother taught me about Advent
A brother’s insistence on saving one gift became a formative Advent lesson: anticipation is not a burden but a grace, preparing us for Christ’s arrival
Can Catholics be good historians?
Four decades after Philip Devenish asked whether a Roman Catholic could truly be a historian, James Tabor’s The Lost Mary revisits that uneasy intersection of faith and scholarship.
Nalini Jones's first novel beautifully evokes Bombay city's Catholic enclave
Reading novels like this one can be an exercise in spiritual development
How to read like a Christian – and avoid lazy thinking
nearly a hundred years ago, the english writer ia richards coined a phrase that has become a mainstay of literary studies. “all respectable ...
Sentimental disbeliever?: Michael Longley’s complicated relationship with faith
in 1969, michael longley published his first significant collection of poems, no continuing city , which featured work written during that d...
Two-Step Devil by Jamie Quatro is full of surprises
although her fiction was jarring and memorable, flannery o’connor’s nonfiction is also rich: replete with sharp insights about culture and c...
How Simone Weil became a 'slave' of Christ
"i was alone,” simone weil wrote. “it was evening and there was a full moon over the sea.” in august 1935, weil was in a small portuguese vi...
A bittersweet correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke and his gardener friend
nick ripatrazone looks at letters around a garden by rainer maria rilke, written to his close friend antoinette, a gardener, a century ago. ...
The Moral Life with James F Keenan explores subjects such as grief and vulnerability
"the question about our world is not really why so much violence, but why so little? why are we not always at each other’s throats?” in 1997...
Maryann Corbett: Profound and darkly comic
nick ripatrazone enjoys the latest collection of poems by maryann corbett both entertaining and devotional. tucked in the back of a book, an...
Mythmaking online and Marshall McLuhan
nick ripatrazone explores how walter j scheirer’s new book a history of fake things on the internet engages with marshall mcluhan’s ide...
The poetry of Christmas trees
nick ripatrazone explores seasonal lines by poets elizabeth bishop, wb yeats, james merrill and denise levertov. in one of her most fa...
A bloom of Painted Ladies
nick ripatrazone appreciates a new god-filled collection of poetry by a writer who is both catholic and catholic. i first encountered a poem...
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