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So, over at Aleteia this weekend I spent some time with Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain. Ultimately there were a few things which kept me from completely liking it, but I have to give the film its due. Bay has…

Okay, so the chances of a real zombie apocalypse happening are pretty slim, but if it did it would raise some interesting questions for Christians. For instance, on tonight’s season finale of The Walking Dead, one of the characters who…

Here is small video of sculptor Andrew Wilson Smith who is currently working at Clear Creek monastery. I enjoyed seeing him work and the hints we got of the process by which he actually works. I also enjoyed the views…

Harry Veryser’s It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: Why Boom and Bust is Unnecessary and How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle (Culture of Enterprise)
I recently posted  an article about Fr Robert Sirico’s book in which…

Are We Higher than the Angels and Archangels?

by David Clayton February 5, 2013

It may seem an impertinence to say so, but Pope Leo the Great seems to think so
Catholics are used to the idea that Our Lady is higher than the angels, but is it true for the rest of us?…

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The Beauty (and Apparent Ugliness!) of the Human Form

by David Clayton February 1, 2013

If every person is beautiful by virtue of being human, why do some people look ugly to me? (And presumably I look ugly to some people too!)
We know objectively that man is the most beautiful of God’s creatures. Every…

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WEEKLY NEWSREEL – 3 1/2 TIME-OUTS TUESDAY (VOL. 55)

by David December 19, 2012

Good evening Mr. & Mrs. Catholic, and all you other Christians at sea. It’s time again for another Newsreel, brought to you as usual by the fine folks at Acts of the Apostasy, home of the 3 1/2 Time-Outs Tuesday…

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A 7th Century Saint Describes How We Participate in the Transfiguration and Shine with the Light that will Save the World

by David Clayton September 7, 2012

The spirit is the mind’s eye through which we see God, face to face, and by which we partake of the divine nature, and are transfigured, in this life by degrees, through our participation in the mystical body of Christ.…

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The Cosmos is Made for Man – How this Affects the Way We Paint It

by David Clayton August 21, 2012

The Office of Readings for July 30th, the Feast of St Peter Chrysologus contains the following passage from one of his sermons: ‘Man, why do you have so low an opinion of yourself, when you are so precious to God?…Has…

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Do You Need to Study Anatomy in Order to Draw the Human Figure?

by David Clayton June 8, 2012

Or…do you need to see people in the nude in order to paint them with their clothes on?
In commenting on recent article someone based what they were saying on an assumption that in order to paint the human figure…

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