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By Msgr. Charles Pope - One of the questions I have asked God is, “Why does it always take so long to build something up while it only seems to take moment to tear it down or destroy it?”.. Destruction is always so much easier than construction. Decades, centuries, even a millennium of building a culture (e.g., Christendom) seems to have vanished overnight. ...

By James Matthew Wilson, The Catholic Thing - This past year marked the seven-hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the greatest of Italian poets and, in his Divine Comedy, the greatest poet of Christendom. Readers know best Dante’s intricate and scholastic depiction of Hell in Inferno, but this is Dante at his least original. ...

By Dr. Donald DeMarco, Catholic Exchange - In Book III of the Republic, Plato explains that when the mind is infected by something alien, one of the most serious impairments that results is the mind’s inability to know that it is infected.  “Vice cannot know virtue too,” he writes,” but a virtuous nature, educated in time, will acquire a knowledge both of virtue and vice:  the virtuous, and not the vicious man has wisdom” (409d). 

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - My first and only response was to point out that we cannot fathom these mysteries for ourselves without slipping into many different kinds of errors, and that we need the authority of the Church to guide us in our understanding. This authority is a critical part of Revelation, and the early Christians repeatedly testified to their awareness that Christ has provided just such an authority to carry on when He returned to the Father.