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Tolkien: Is he on the path to sainthood?

Monday, July 9th, 2018

J. R.R. Tolkien, in this writer’s opinion, has one of the best innate grasps of evangelizing through beauty of anyone writing in the 20th century.

Why? Because his work is permeated with a Catholic understanding of beauty. Read more

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