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ADVENT MEDITATIONS

As I pondered the subject of Advent on this unusually mild and sunny Friday afternoon, November 22, my recollections drew me back to a very ...
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OLGA OF KIEV: FROM AVENGING ANGEL TO CHRISTIAN SAINT

If you have read the newspapers and watched media accounts of daily news events, you would think that the Russian Federation and its allies were ...
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OUR LAND IS GREAT AND RICH, BUT THERE’S NO ORDER IN IT. COME RULE AND REIGN OVER US.

In a previous posting (see Prelude: Towards the Consecration of Learning), I made reference to a gathering storm that burst on the face of Europe, ...
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THE CONSECRATION OF LEARNING

BACKGROUND As a new Western Europe was approaching the second millennium, the kingdoms that for centuries had been warring among themselves, and with fighting bands ...
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Prelude: Towards the Consecration of Learning

In my previous two postings [See Aristotle’s Impact on The Wisdom Tradition; and Carolingian Renaissance] I discussed the state of education – its goals, its ...
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CAROLINGIAN RENAISSANCE

At the beginning of the Common Era, nothing seemed as certain to endure as the Roman Empire.  Having defeated all contenders and potential adversaries, Octavian ...
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