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How Catholic Principles shaped Pugin’s Bold Architecture
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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Becoming the Apostle of Christian Architecture—Augustus Pugin’s Early Life
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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Phones don’t have a Place at the Table in some Restaurants
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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An Appalling Alliance to Disfigure Notre-Dame
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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AI for Catholics in the Real World Who Still believe in the Devil
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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Why can’t the World’s Best Technologies create Smarter Students?
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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What AI can’t do
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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The Marvellous, the Real and the Horrendous in Children's Literature
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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