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Introduction Opening Passage: The book has both an introduction and a prologue as well as an opening to the story proper, so I go with th...

Discord becomes particularly recognizable as a vice opposing the virtue of charity; and like most such vices, discord does not have a long o...

Transformation by Rosamund Marriott Watson Far from country lanes and leas, O’er pavements foul with stain and spot, I hastened, holdin...

Today is the Feast of St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Doctor of the Church. From his Breviloquium (Part VI, Chapter 3): Since this army [of...

Vision of Belshazzar by George Gordon, Lord Byron The King was on his throne, The Satraps throng'd the hall: A tho...

After Master Kong himself, the most important reference-point for Confucianism is Master Meng, or Mencius, in the latinized form. According ...

As for what you say in your esteemed letter concerning temptations against the Faith, pay no attention to them. They are not real temptation...