The five golden rings rerepresented the first five books of the Old Testament ... The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes. Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit ...

After the blessing they are distributed to the priests of the diocese, who must then burn what remains of the old oils and use the ... false doctrines, bad books, bad example and temptation ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man of letters, in possession of a goodly number of books, must be in need of a ladder.

In this episode of John Dear's "The Nonviolence of Jesus" podcast, Dear sits down with Sr. Joan Chittister to unpack the ...

Two heads are sometimes better than one as this category in Naperville Public Library’s Amazing Book Challenge — It Takes Two ...

He made the uncanny cool for a kid like me, whose dollhouse contained a miniature Ouija board in the child’s room and a ghost made of Kleenex and cotton balls in the attic. By Lisa Brown A ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled ...

calling them to participate in the “revolutionary vision of the Beatitudes” and transform suffering into hope. “Your mission is not only to create beauty but to reveal the truth, goodness ...

Make no mistake - these Beatitudes are a challenge ... Rowan Williams is fond of repeating the old joke that the English delight in being self-made and thus relieve God of a terrible responsibility.

Though there's not been much recent news directly about the game, work on the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) remake is ongoing. That said, since we've not seen any substantial ...