In certain sectors of the culture, there’s a disrespect for the fantasy genre, claiming that it’s “just for kids”. Basically saying that adults who read fantasy stories need to “grow up”. Calling us “silly” or patronizing us like children…
By Ian Wilson
When anyone asks about the patron saint of nature, everyone’s first thought is of Francis of Assisi. Rightly so, he is the most famous saint associated with nature…
By Amanda Pizzolatto
If you’re a writer with aspiration for fame, fortune or at least middle-class income, I’ve got bad news for you: in all likelihood, you’re not going to get any of that…
By Ian Wilson
It seems in all his works, Wycliffe was sincere rather than calculated, earnestly desiring reform…
By Sarah Levesque Losordo
I’m very particular about what media I consume. There’s certain music I don’t listen to, certain movies and TV I don’t watch, and certain books I don’t read…
By Ian Wilson
Having equipped himself with a breastplate of righteousness, a sword of the spirit, and a shield of faith, Jack quite literally must go face the ruler of the darkness of his world…
By Anthony Cirilla
Well, here are my 12 rules for writing adventure stories. Feel free to follow, or discard them at your own convenience, whatever fits your writing style…
By Ian Wilson
In 1373, at the age of thirty, Julian fell ill with a mysterious illness that threatened to take her very life. She was spared, however, by the mercy of God, who healed her and revealed Himself to her in visions…
By Ian Wilson
James the Lesser, or James the Just, a close relative of the Mother of Our Lord and witness to the crucifixion, friend of the Apostle Paul, leader of the Jerusalem Council, and first Bishop of Jerusalem…
By Lyn Bennett Wilson
Forty years ago, the story of how Jack and Lily endangered and then rescued the last two unicorns from the Lord of the Underworld brought an elegantly simple wisdom to the silver screen. This essay explores how the love that unites Jack and Lily resonates with the quest for transcendent light described by Boethius in his Consolation of Philosophy…
By Anthony Cirilla
Julia Ledochowska always encouraged her students and nuns to always smile and look to Jesus as “flowers to the sun.”
By T.K. Wilson
Singing the Divine Office is accessible to all Christians; it entails little more than chanting some Psalms. It can also let in anyone who cares on the secret of Catholic accessories: the smells and bells exist because we are souls and bodies…
By Cordelia Fitzgerald
Christ breaks the constraints of travel between the spheres; from death to life He rises, from the netherworld to the world: the scene of God’s salvation…
By Cordelia Fitzgerald
Saint Joseph the Hymnographer (c. 816–886 AD) stands as one of the most prolific and influential liturgical poets in the history of the Eastern Christian tradition…
by Lyn Wilson
I think most people in the First Century were disappointed with Jesus, even His followers. That was part of the point of His ministry on Earth: to overturn expectations…
By Ian Wilson
I will start by saying the Beast is not a monster; the Beast is you and I…
By Ian Wilson
By Lyn Wilson … St. Herculanus, whose feast days are both November 7 and March 1, is Patron Saint of Perugia, Italy. His life story is a fact decorated by a bit of fantasy. He was said to have been sent to Perugia from Syria to evangelize sometime in the earlier half of the 6th century.
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Fiction, you see, is not entirely “fake”. It deals with truth through a narrative format. It is the most effective, most subversive form of propaganda…
– By Ian Wilson
By Sarah Losardo … In 1883, Mother Marianne received a letter from the Sandwich Islands – now known as Hawaii – begging for someone to take charge of their hospitals and schools. Along with six other sisters, Mother Marianne set out halfway around the world, primarily to care for those with leprosy (now called Hansen’s Disease).
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One of the points to her greatness is one I suspect many overlook, that is of her wit and sarcasm. Elizabeth Bennet is considered the golden heroine because of it, despite not many fanfictions after that really making use of it…
By Amanda Pizzolatto
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