Bane, Aurora, and the Myth of Pure Evil
The main villain of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Night Rises is a brutal killer named Bane, ...
Fr. Gabriel Torretta, O.P.
Fr. Gabriel Torretta was ordained to the priesthood in May 2015. He studied pre-modern Japanese literature at Columbia University. On DominicanFriars.org
Is Nice a Vice?
Michael Bluth, the main character of the cult TV series Arrested Development, is the ...
Nature’s Wasted Beauty
The other day on a hike I noticed a mountain laurel bush jutting from the sheer wall of a rock ...
Yiayia’s Nagging Morals
Last year a Greek food company produced a series of creative and wildly popular ads that ...
In a Dark Wood Wandering
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
—Matthew ...
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Body
It is a fact widely acknowledged that man’s common intellectual heritage suffers from a dearth ...
Hidden Amid the Real
There is a secret tragedy hidden in life’s joys. A lavish meal ends with a mound of dishes to ...
Christmas Moralism
Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! ...
The Laughing Jesus
Jesus does not laugh in any of the four Gospels. This fact might seem strange to us, and even ...
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