Deep Down Things

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Pentecost 2012 issue.

Peace and the Sacred Heart
Katherine Aparicio Katherine Aparicio

Peace and the Sacred Heart

“I will establish peace in their homes.” 

This is one of the promises Jesus made to 17th century French nun St. Margaret Mary Alocoque regarding those who practice devotion to his Sacred Heart. It is a promise that echos in my head frequently as I go about the business of raising six children amidst the chaos of a two-working-parent home.

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The View from Childhood: An Upcoming Conversation with Angela Alaimo O'Donnell & Steve Knepper; Healing Modern Medicine; What is suffering for?; First Things: Third Annual Poetry Prize; Should the Lion Lie Down With the Electric Lamb?; Easy Writer

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Paul Celan’s Via Negativa; The Cordial Catholic with Shemaiah Gonzalez; Tolkien and Tech; Hildegard, Tarkovsky, Citrus Trees; Cinema Paradiso and the sacrament of cinema; B. H. Fairchild ~ PoetryLA Interview Series

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Magnifica Humanitas; Idols of the Valley; Real and the Unreal; Cheap Tradsploitation of “Yesteryear”; How Occultists Remade the World; "The Novel: A Survival Skill"

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The Untethered Theology of Morrissey
Tyler J. Wagner Tyler J. Wagner

The Untethered Theology of Morrissey

Morrissey exemplifies the conundrum of post-Christian post-modernity: “I feel no pull towards the church, but I understand that there is nothing else.”

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Frost Farm Prize Winner Announced; As of Fire: Poets and Pentecost; Sam Kahn: How I Learned to Read Again; Stories That Show the Examined Life Is Very Much Worth Living

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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From Fame to Faith Through a Broken Statue | Kevin Matthews; Matthew Schmitz on Our Strange Catholic Moment ; William H. Pritchard: A Lifetime Enterprise, The last essays of Helen Vendler; Henry Oliver on Jonathan Swift’s Frustrated Humor; Jason Reid on Juster’s Petrarch; POETICS Podcast: Episode Scattered Rhymes: A.M. Juster's Canzoniere and the Art of Falling in Love Again

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction; The Wrong Kind of Black Poet; Why Portico? Micah Mattix and R.R. Reno talk about their new magazine; A Small Rebellion Against the Machine’; The Laughter of the Father; Tod Worner and Katy Carl talk about Luminor

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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The Angelic Painter; Finding the Blue Hour; How Occultists Remade the World; Wendy Cope: why I won’t stop reading Philip Larkin; Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men”: The Agony of Will

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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Announcing the 2025 J.F. Powers Prize for Fiction Finalists; Thomist Poets Reading: Eric Cyr; Faith and Imagination Podcast with Paul Pastor; New Verse Review: Translation Issue; Infinite Jest, the Internet, and the Politics of Reading; Little Magazines Are Back

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