Lily Bart’s fall from status is bare, pitiless, and relentlessly humiliating: she stumbles from step to ugly lower step until things the reader thought unconscionable on page one seem like Divine Intervention by page fifty.

In short, it is excruciating. Which is exactly the point.

Explore with us what Edith Wharton's Gilded Age tragedy has to do with Wisdom, Authenticity, & ultimately the Life of Grace.

The Rosary is the Catholic Prayer par excellence, and its daily recitation is not only a wellspring of graces, but a school in which we can learn, with increasing profundity, of the incredible riches of our Catholic Faith.   (A review of Angelico Press'  Our Lady's Psalter: Reflections on the Traditional Rosary (2025).)

What could the Modernist iconoclasts of the early 20th century have to teach us about sacramentality? I think you’ll be surprised. By looking beyond the surface of Virginia Woolf’s poetic prose, we can almost taste the spiritual realities hiding behind everyday things, and in the wake of the great Feast of Corpus Christi, Woolf’s vivid imagery can help us awaken all the more to the ‘Godhead here in hiding’.

A Christmas Carol? During Lent?! 

Yes, you read that correctly. But, surely we’re just mixing up our liturgical seasons?

Perhaps, but this Christmas classic might also be the paradoxical key that helps us unlock the challenge and gift of Lent. 

When Thomas Egerton published Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park in 1814, it sold out its first print run in six months. Today, Fanny Price is often declared Austen's least-inspiring heroine. What happened? Somewhere we lost sight of the robust wonder of developing a broad heart.