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The Christian Aesthetic

A Higher Inspiration for Art Travelling to Europe is like travelling back in time: to a fairy-tale world of castles, cathedrals, and cobblestone. Unlike America, Europe has a long history, monuments of triumphs recently gained and ruins of glories long faded, and, as such, constant reminders of the

04.1.2008| Opinions, Volume 4, Issue 1 | Christopher Lacaria

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The Contemporary and Catholic Church

A poll conducted by The New York Times in the middle of the preceding decade discovered that more than seventy percent of self-identified Catholics deny the doctrine of transubstantiation, the miracle by which the sacramental bread and wine are substantially transformed into the body and blood of Je

04.1.2007| Opinions, Volume 3, Issue 2 | Christopher Lacaria

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Debunking the Church-State Dichotomy

The consecration of the state, by a state religious establishment, is necessary," wrote the political philosopher Edmund Burke, "to operate with a wholesale awe upon free citizens" because "all persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they

11.1.2006| Opinions, Volume 3, Issue 1 | Christopher Lacaria

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