Mary and Monica
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by EMR
7M ago
At the entrance to the Renaissance Basilica of Saint Augustine in Rome, a Schatzkammer packed with Caravaggios that stands on a side-street next to a cheap pizzeria, you can find a little chapel with a big statue. It’s the “Madonna del parto” — Our Lady of Childbirth. Strange name. The Madonna del parto by Jacopo Sansovino (1518) The locals call her “la Veneratissima.” She is rumored to be miraculous. The statue, presenting the tawny girl from Galilee as a languid Roman matron with milky-white hands, is the serene heart of a niche consecrated to the sacred mystery of motherhood. And what a p ..read more
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Titian’s Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
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by A.L.P.
8M ago
Where else would you see a bright fiery sunset enlivening Renaissance palaces, but in Venice? This is a city of saints and their relics, great historical figures, and an immense gathering of some of the most important masterpieces of Western Civilization. Tintoretto and Veronese are everywhere. When, as a doctoral student in Rome, I was studying the theology of Baroque art, it was a special treat to take a break from the thesis and hop on the train to Venice, known for centuries simply as La Serenissima, the Most Serene. Like many well-preserved Italian cities, one can see here how m ..read more
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Washington Park in Milwaukee
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by EMR
9M ago
 Smack in the middle of Milwaukee, there is a 124-acre oasis designed by the architect who built Central Park in New York. There is a huge Art Deco bandshell and a sinuous lake, a vast swimming pool, a neat public library, and a giant bronze monument of two great German poets that is an exact copy of one in Weimar, not to mention the equestrian statue of General von Steuben. New Yorkers would be rollerblading through this park, lying half-dressed on its lawns and hauling poodles along its paths. Germans would open a beer garden under its oaks and bring Bach to the bandshell. But this is M ..read more
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Was Vatican II Necessary? A Response to George Weigel
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by William
1y ago
George Weigel is a champion of the Second Vatican Council. He defends the council from being twisted and co-opted by leftwing Catholics; and he defends it from being twisted and lambasted by certain traditionalist Catholics. Most recently, Weigel mounted his defense in the Saturday pages of the Wall Street Journal. He acknowledges, in the article, that Vatican II was followed by many ecclesial tragedies, abuses, and confusions. He asks the provocative question: “Was Vatican II really necessary?” Weigel argues that, despite the many disasters that followed in the council’s wake, Vatic ..read more
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Mary and Monica
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by EMR
1y ago
At the entrance to the Renaissance Basilica of Saint Augustine in Rome, a Schatzkammer packed with Caravaggios that stands on a side-street next to a cheap pizzeria, you can find a little chapel with a big statue. It’s the “Madonna del parto” — Our Lady of Childbirth. Strange name. The Madonna del parto by Jacopo Sansovino (1518) The locals call her “la Veneratissima.” She is rumored to be miraculous. The statue, presenting the tawny girl from Galilee as a languid Roman matron with milky-white hands, is the serene heart of a niche consecrated to the sacred mystery of motherhood. And what a p ..read more
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Titian’s Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
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by A.L.P.
1y ago
Where else would you see a bright fiery sunset enlivening Renaissance palaces, but in Venice? This is a city of saints and their relics, great historical figures, and an immense gathering of some of the most important masterpieces of Western Civilization. Tintoretto and Veronese are everywhere. When, as a doctoral student in Rome, I was studying the theology of Baroque art, it was a special treat to take a break from the thesis and hop on the train to Venice, known for centuries simply as La Serenissima, the Most Serene. Like many well-preserved Italian cities, one can see here how m ..read more
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Saint Mary Major
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by EMR
1y ago
Today is the feast of the dedication of the Roman basilica of Saint Mary Major, one of only four major basilicas in the world. The others are also in Rome: Saint John Lateran, Saint Peter and Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls. Each of these ancient churches has a holy door that remains sealed except for jubilees, when the pope comes to open it. The original church on this site was erected just after the Council of Ephesus (431) — the council at which the title of Mary as Theotokos, Mother of God, was upheld. Saint Mary Major was thus one of the first churches in the world to be dedicated ..read more
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Courage on a Midsummer Night
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by James
1y ago
On a warm late-July evening, I recently attended an outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s timeless A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The comedy was put on by students from Chesterton Academy, a relatively new Catholic classical high school in Menomonee Falls. The play, of course, was brilliant and hilarious. This particular performance was set against a row of old pines in a serene local park, fitting perfectly with the mystical forest in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Fiery rays of a setting summer sun filtered through curtains of branches that elegantly drooped over the actors’ heads. A calm stream flow ..read more
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Classical Catholic Education
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by Cream City Catholic
1y ago
Apart from the crucifix above the classroom door, it is often difficult to distinguish Catholic schools from secular schools these days. What were once reliable redoubts of faith, formation and culture for America’s Catholic youth against an emerging secular juggernaut have themselves been absorbed into the miasma of the Progressive status quo. Those vestiges of Catholicism that remain are often co-opted to accommodate and reflect the language, vocabulary and aims of secularism, not Catholicism. Of course, administrators and teachers may be well-intentioned, sincere and qualified (that is, acc ..read more
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Awakening at the Tomb
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by EMR
2y ago
You go to the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre when you want the real thing. What you can’t find in Milwaukee you will get in Jerusalem. This is the place where the Divine Messiah was crucified, died and was buried. Calvary and the Tomb are here, contained in one church. If you want to see them, come. Just be careful: this church smacks you in the pisk. The Sepulchre is the holiest site in Christendom. For centuries, Christians risked enslavement; they impoverished themselves and defied death by shipwreck or the scimitar to come here. This is a hardscrabble church. This is a carnal and an i ..read more
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