12+ hour, 6+ min ago  (497+ words) A well-known book among novelists is The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker. Booker argues that virtually all stories ever told fall into just seven fundamental plot archetypes: Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, The Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy,…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (833+ words) Just before Holy Week I was able to go on pilgrimage with some of the American students I teach in Rome. "It was a very rewarding experience. The theme of the pilgrimage was "Visiting the patron saints of Italy," namely,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (378+ words) John Keats wrote of a "negative capability" that the great poets possess " to "be capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts " without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." It is in this that the artist's "sense of Beauty overcomes…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (16+ words) Catholic Stand...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (867+ words) The 40 Days for Life movement has two periods of the year (in the fall and again during Lent) where we "crank up" our efforts to help the unborn. "But two recent occurrences may put a damper on this year's Lenten…...