Introducing our new website By Léonie Caldecott “Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.” Henry David Thoreau In 2016 the winner of the Royal Television Society award for best Science and Natural History programme was…
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Experience the England of Tolkien, Chesterton, and Newman “A student who loves J.R.R. Tolkien or C.S. Lewis, or Cardinal Newman or G.K. Chesterton, would naturally wish at some point to visit England, and come to Oxford, and see the places where these…
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Artist Rose-Marie Caldecott describes how her father inspired her work From the beginning of my relationship with paint, I have been interested in how a painting might communicate the fact that everything in nature—including ourselves—exists in a state of flux. To be…
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Charlotte Ostermann’s interview with Stratford Caldecott about Beauty in the Word and Beauty for Truth's Sake. The following interview took place in 2012 and is re-posted from Stratford Caldecott’s blog, Beauty in Education. 1. Fr. Giussani speaks of the “risk of education”.…
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A Historian’s Perspective By Martin Knight The publication in March 2017 of Rod Dreher’s long-awaited The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation has prompted some serious debate over the question of the Church’s obligations to conservation and evangelisation…
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A Spiritual Reflection By Father Michael Gaudoin-Parker Grace floods our whole lives, enlightening and transforming us to see clearly and live fully our human potential: a potential that comes from God. This means acknowledging with gratitude the gifts and blessings we receive…
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Jennifer Doane Upton, The Ordeal of Mercy: Dante’s Purgatorio in Light of the Spiritual Path, edited by Charles Upton (Angelico Press/Sophia Perennis, 2015) By Michael Martin “It is one of the greatest merits of Dante’s poem,” wrote T.S. Eliot, “that the vision…
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