Today I've posted my final installment of the Cammino attraverso la Commedia over at Verdicts. Thanks to everyone who has followed along, and special thanks to Helen and Flavia who performed intellectual works of mercy (you didn't know there were intellectual works of mercy, did you?) by commenting
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I’ve posted the latest installment of Un cammino attraverso la Commedia over on the Verdicts site. As you'll see, I'm interested in how the Inferno ends by not ending. We're onto the Purgatorio! As always, comments welcome
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I've posted the latest installment of Uno cammino attraverso la Commedia over on the Verdicts site. My discussion focuses on Ulysses and the tension between one's quest for knowledge and one's duty to family. Please feel free to join our discussion. The post is here
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Uno cammino attraverso la Commedia continues here. Please join our lively discussion. As you'll see, I incorporated comments from last time into my current post. (If Don Draper can read the Inferno, you can too
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Our discussion of the Divine Comedy continues over at Verdicts. The link is here
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I've posted the first installment of Uno cammino per la Commedia over on the Verdicts site.
Andiamo. Please post your comments there. I'm very much looking forward to our discussion
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"Out of our midst he plucked the shade
of our first parent, of Abel his son, of Noah,
and of Moses, obedient in giving laws,
the patriarch Abraham, and David the king,
Israel with his father and his sons,
and with Rachel, for whom he served so long,
as well as many others, and he made
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Were it not the Monday of Holy Week, the Roman Catholic Church would be celebrating the feast of the Annunciation today, March 25. Lovers of Dante also celebrate March 25 as the day the pilgrim began his descent into the Inferno.*
I'm on academic leave this year, and so it is the first time in
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Mark 2:1-5
And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house. And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them. And they come unto him
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The University of Notre Dame has asked some of its faculty members to comment on the latest news of the Roman Catholic Church in the wake of the Pope's resignation. Professor John Cavadini, a frequent Commonweal contributor, offered these reflections, which I thought might interest dotCommonweal
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