When we fail to see how compelling reality can be - and, more so, how meaningful it is - we can easily become entangled in any deception that offers the chance to at least feel like we are living for a purpose. How easy it is, then, to trade real bread for the mere smell of baking.

Join us for the second of a two-parter on our relationship to fiction & whether it can be trusted to help us grow.

Faeries. Elves. Talking lions. At the turn of the twentieth century, these icons marked the advent of a definitive moment of invigoration in a world grown cold.

In the early stages of the twenty-first century, it is hard not to view this perspective with a sort of regretful nostalgia or perhaps a grim cynicism. When the world of fantasy comes to mind, the last image one thinks of is church pews bursting with eager occupants.

So, what happened?

Join us for the first of a two-parter on our relationship to fiction & whether it can be trusted to help us grow.

“Beauty will save the world,” said Prince Lev Nikolyaevich Myshkin in Dosteovsky’s The Idiot, and indeed beauty is something we are being readily encouraged to embrace in the Church and the world to enrich our lives and walk as a path to God in His Truth. But is the path all sunshine and roses? Or are their traps along the way for unwary travelers? We take a look at some of the darker side of beauty and keep our eyes open as we walk the Via Pulchritudinis.