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Between the Cross and Resurrection: The Harrowing of Hell, according to J.R.R. Tolkien

March 30, 2024

Easter time seems to get me reflecting on Tolkien’s Catholic imagination. I have previously written about how the dynamic of grace was portrayed in the experiences of the hobbit-protagonists of Tolkien’s Middle Earth sagas. A key facilitator to this dynamic is, of course, the wizard Gandalf and the various ways in which he plays a

Why, despite everything happening in the world, we can rejoice this Easter

April 01, 2018

The Resurrection means that evil has a very definite sell-by date

Why the Resurrection rarely features in Christian art

April 01, 2018

Even geniuses struggle to capture an event so wondrous

What’s inside this week’s magazine?

June 09, 2016

Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald

The Acts of the Apostles describe the early Church as something more than mere words

April 30, 2015

Fifth Sunday of Easter, Acts 9:26-31; 1 jn 3:18-24; jn 15:1-8 (Year B)

The power of the Resurrection cannot be contained

April 02, 2015

Easter Sunday, Acts 10: 34. 37-43; Col 3: 1-4; Jn 20: 1-9 (year b)

We need to feel the weight of the Cross

April 02, 2015

The Cross is worth its weight not in gold, nor in suffering alone, but in the currency of divine love

Vatican restores famous sculpture in Paul VI hall

October 08, 2011

Restoration work is scheduled to finish by December 9

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