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  • Our Lady: Center of Medieval Life

    Last month, Notre Dame de Paris was heavily damaged by fire. This cathedral was built by our medieval Catholic ancestors, and is dear to Catholics around the world. Recently, I came across an interesting Catholic Herald article written by the American medieval scholar, Dr. Rachel Fulton Brown. In the article, Brown, writes of the central importance of Our Lady, as…

  • Notre-Dame de Paris and Professor de Oliveira

    “For the world of science and evolution is far more nameless and elusive and like a dream than the world of poetry and religion; since in the latter images and ideas remain themselves eternally, while it is the whole idea of evolution that identities melt into each other as they do in a nightmare.” ― G.K. Chesterton, The Ball and…

  • Notre-Dame and the Cross Amidst the Ruins

    “The faith of the Middle Ages built the cathedrals, and here your ancestors came to praise God, to entrust to him their hopes and to express their love for him.”  ~Pope Benedict XVI at Notre-Dame de Paris, 2008   Yesterday, on a Monday in Holy Week, the grand Roman Catholic cathedral of Paris, Notre-Dame de Paris, caught fire and was…