Superheroes Do Exist: #CapForStrat

By |2016-02-14T16:04:43-06:00June 14th, 2014|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Second Spring, Stratford Caldecott|

A quiet but tenacious scholar and gentleman, Oxford’s Stratford Caldecott has spent his life as an editor and writer, a promoter of everything and every and any one who seeks in this rather fallen world to discover the eternal good, the true, and the beautiful. For decades, through his own writings, through his excellent journal, [...]

Not as the World Gives: The Way of Creative Justice

By |2018-12-04T16:50:30-06:00May 14th, 2014|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Communio, Featured, Stratford Caldecott|

In a book on Catholic social doctrine, published just after Easter, I found myself integrating a lifetime’s work on a range of topics, from liturgy to politics, from sex to economics. Not As the World Gives aims to show us the nature of society by showing us ourselves. But that is the biggest reality of [...]

Oncology/Ontology

By |2016-07-17T09:59:55-05:00March 24th, 2014|Categories: Communio, Culture, Featured, Stratford Caldecott|

From my wheelchair I noticed that there was only one letter different between these two words—the word for the study of cancer, and for the study of being. That posed me a challenge. What is this difference? What is cancer, and what is being? Why is there no “Ontology Ward” in my local hospital? Would [...]

Archetypes: Masculine and Feminine

By |2021-08-17T09:57:42-05:00February 22nd, 2014|Categories: Communio, Featured, Pope Francis, Stratford Caldecott, Theology|Tags: |

As a civilization we have abandoned our belief in the archetypes—not just of man and woman but even of good and evil. We’ve been trying to chart our course without them. But they haven’t gone away, and an archetype spurned can be a dangerous thing. In his famous press conference on the plane coming back from Rio, [...]

G.K. Chesterton and Modernity

By |2022-05-28T22:43:19-05:00January 17th, 2014|Categories: Books, Christendom, Christianity, Communio, Culture, Featured, G.K. Chesterton, Modernity, Morality, Stratford Caldecott|

Chesterton recognized that heart and hearth, work and worth, are all of a piece. Human flourishing is found in families, human wholeness in holiness. Civilization depends on faith—faith both in the transcendent horizon that many call God, but also faith in reason, and in the ability of human intelligence to grasp objective truth. by [...]

The Heart of Wisdom

By |2021-04-09T15:50:06-05:00November 30th, 2013|Categories: Books, Communio, Featured, Stratford Caldecott, Wisdom|

There is a book that caught my attention and may well hold it to the end of my life. Written by an English hermit—Priest-Monk Silouan, a convert to Orthodoxy now living in a retreat on the Shropshire hills—Wisdom Songs is a collection of “Centuries”, chapters of a hundred meditations each, on a series of spiritual [...]

The Family at the Heart of a Culture of Life

By |2022-02-23T08:39:55-06:00October 16th, 2013|Categories: Christianity, Communio, Culture, Essential, Family, Featured, Stratford Caldecott|

The bonds between the Church, the Holy Family, and the “domestic church” founded on the sacrament of marriage are intimate and profound. In a host of formal and informal pronouncements and teachings, Pope John Paul II consistently underlined the central importance of the family as the basic cell of human society, and sacramental marriage as the sole foundation on which [...]

CGI Apocalypse: The Veiling of Nature

By |2016-02-14T16:01:03-06:00October 7th, 2013|Categories: Communio, Culture, Nature, Stratford Caldecott, Technology|

Will the world end with a bang, or just a whimper, as T.S. Eliot predicted? Or will nobody notice at all? An eerie silence, as everyone listens to an endless stream of digital music on their iPods. Gradually, step by step, with the advance of computer technology, real things are being replaced by images of [...]

Male and Female Souls

By |2019-07-16T07:55:07-05:00September 28th, 2013|Categories: Christianity, Communio, Marriage, Stratford Caldecott|Tags: |

To what extent are the differences between man and woman rooted in the soul, rather than just the body? If the soul is the “form” of the body, one might assume that masculinity and femininity are characteristics of the soul before they are of the body. Yet the tradition of patristic and medieval commentary on [...]

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