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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
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
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