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In this issue,

Editorial: A Stir Is Being Felt

Despite bleak times, small signs of revival give hope, especially among young people undertaking pilgrimages, founding families, and entering consecrated life, comments Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP.

Traffic Island Becomes Treasure Island

A participant reflects on her day of vocational discernment spent in London last April among twenty-three young ladies, based at Tyburn Convent where the relics of many English martyrs are displayed.

Chaste Sleuths Win By Popular Acclaim

Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion, Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP observes.

Challenges to Married Life in Secular Society

In this spontaneous contribution, a Catholic married septuagenarian looks back at the challenges inherent to married life in our time of faith demise, and forward to eternity as the goal of matrimony.

How Abbot Suger Invented the Gothic Style

Art historian Leslie Anne Hamel tells about the royal Basilica of St-Denis in Paris where, long before A.W.N. Pugin revived it, the Gothic style was invented as an architectural manifesto of transcendent faith.

Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance

Painted c. 1664, Johannes Vermeer’s picture displays Catholic hints about Judgement, the Blessed Virgin Mary and clandestine holy Masses, finds the author of the novel Vermeer’s Angel Fr Armand de Malleray

Tolkien and the Green Knight

Tolkien scholar Prof. Robert Lazu Kmita explains how the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight honouring chastity influenced the author of Lord of the Rings.

by Fr AM