Sunday, December 21, 2025

Carl Sundell

Carl Sundell is Emeritus Professor of English and Humanities at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, Massachusetts. The author of several books including The Intellectual and the Gunman, Four Presidents, and Shaw versus Chesterton, he has published various articles in New Oxford Review and Catholic Insight. He currently resides in Lubbock, Texas where he is developing a book of short essays for students of Catholic apologetics
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Strength in Unity

“I pray that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that...

Is Religion a Force for the Good?

Most people regard religion as a constructive and positive force in human history, while some regard it as a false and negative force. Naturally, that depends on which religion you are talking about, and...

Is Religion a Burden?

Religion and philosophy share one precise goal: to explore and explain all the unseen causes behind the visible world of human experience. Philosophy seeks to explain these causes strictly by rational methods. Religion, while...

Esto Vir! Be a Man

Deacon Kyle Broderson recently gave a talk during which he asked the men in his audience to consider what they most wanted to be in life. It wasn’t long before the men got around...

Are We a ‘Godly’ People?

According to the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain in his 1952 book The Range of Reason, there are Christians who, to all intents and purposes, think and behave more like atheists than Christians. These are...

The Problem of Evil

There is no better way to solve the problem of evil than by starting with a definition of what evil is, or is not. According to the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, the universe itself...

What Is Heaven?

Christians agree that God invites us all to end our lives in a state of being called 'heaven'; that is, in a personal relationship with God that is full of joy and oneness for...

Why is There Purgatory?

“All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter...

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