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Ambiences, Customs & Civilizations
25 June 2026
How Catholic Principles shaped Pugin’s Bold Architecture
The following article is the second of a four-part series that features the life of Augustus Pugin, the renown English Catholic architect of the nineteenth…
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Ambiences, Customs & Civilizations
19 June 2026
Becoming the Apostle of Christian Architecture—Augustus Pugin’s Early Life
The following article is one of a four-part series that features the life of Augustus Pugin, the renowned English Catholic architect of the nineteenth…
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Ambiences, Customs & Civilizations
17 June 2026
Phones don’t have a Place at the Table in some Restaurants
The dinner table was once a sacred space. The dining room was a domestic sanctuary where families and friends gathered to share meals, exchange ideas, and…
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Ambiences, Customs & Civilizations
12 June 2026
An Appalling Alliance to Disfigure Notre-Dame
There is something profoundly unacceptable in the Notre-Dame stained-glass window affair: an appalling alliance to impose the ideological mark of modernity on…
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Ambiences, Customs & Civilizations
7 June 2026
AI for Catholics in the Real World Who Still believe in the Devil
One is struck by the great diversity of topics in Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas. Mention of human dignity, dehumanization, just war…
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Ambiences, Customs & Civilizations
5 June 2026
Why can’t the World’s Best Technologies create Smarter Students?
The lure of the perfect teaching machine is great. The reality is always disappointing. Machines simply cannot adapt to students’ needs as rapidly or smoothly…
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Ambiences, Customs & Civilizations
4 May 2026
What AI can’t do
For a long time, I have struggled with how to deal with AI. There are some very valid objections circulating about the new medium, especially as it pertains to…
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Ambiences, Customs & Civilizations
12 January 2026
The Marvellous, the Real and the Horrendous in Children's Literature
By Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (ACC) ‘Catholicism’ No. 40 - April 1954 As everyone knows, stories are children's first contact with life. Through…
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