Generally recognized as the first official encyclical of Catholic Social Teaching, Rerum Novarum (“On new things”) by Pope Leo XIII addressed the tumultuous social conditions of modernity, asserting the rights and dignity of workers in the face of industrialization that had largely replaced the agrarian social order of the previous millennia. Pope Leo’s tomb sits…
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Winter reading (and writing)
It’s been an unseasonably mild winter here in the Midwest, which most likely means some sort of polar vortex will descend upon us in the new year, bringing arctic temperatures and frozen pipes to this old house. Nevertheless, winter is a wonderful time to be outside, particularly in the evening, which comes swift and inky…
incarnation is everywhere 