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An Interview with J. Stephen Russell

J. STEPHEN RUSSELL is professor emeritus of English at Hofstra University, where he taught for over thirty years. He is the author of The English Dream Vision (1988), Chaucer...

Columba Marmion on the Mysteries of Christ

Christ's mysteries are ours. The union that Christ wishes to contract with our souls is such that all is common between Him and us. With divine liberality, He wishes to...

An Easter Reading List from Angelico Press

The Easter season invites us not only to celebrate the Resurrection, but to have the way we see the world, the Church, and our own lives transformed. While spiritual reading...

“The Vision” by Thomas Traherne

The Vision I Flight is but the preparative. The sight Is deep and infinite, Ah me! 'tis the glory, love, light, space, Joy, beauty and variety That doth adorn the...

Johannes Scotus Erigena on the Necessity of Cre...

The whole view of Erigena is in the direction that the existence of the universe is a necessary moment in the life of God, a necessary fulfilment of the process...

A Lenten Reading List from Angelico Press

Lent is not simply a season of giving things up. It is a time for turning again toward the central mystery of the Christian faith: the suffering, death, and redeeming...

The Sown Field by Caryll Houselander

Here is an image, he said, of the kingdom of heaven. There was a man who sowed his field with clean seed. . . . (Matthew xiii. 24) The countryman is...

E. L. Mascall on the Trinity

I imagine that a great many people, if asked “What is the Trinity?” would begin their answer with the words “It is the doctrine that. . .”. And I suspect...

Dom Willibrord Verkade on Conversion

In the religious atmosphere of the convent my soul developed wonderfully. There began for me then a new life, the life with God. The Confessions of Saint Augustine and the...

Jason Baxter Talks His Translation of Dante's P...

Books by Jason Baxter

Best Gift Giving Ideas for Children's Books

‘Tis the season for dreaming up the best gift-giving ideas for those special children in your life. Catholic children’s books present a splendid opportunity to impart the true, the good,...

10 Must-Read Catholic Books for Advent

1. Christ, the Life of the Soul by Blessed Columba Marmion There are few better seasons to strengthen our spiritual life than Advent, and few books better suited for the...