Damian Tharcisius

Essays

The Popular Catholic Bishop Barron has a lot to say on the plight of the modern man. Happiness is one. However, his often-cited mantra that 'money, power, pleasure, and honor do not make you happy' is not only wrong, but it is kind of screwed up.

What I like about Rupi Kaur’s Poetry Complex & Provocative. Amongst other Things   My introduction to the Canadian poet Rupi Kaur came in late 2018 when I ran into an interview involving her and Emma Watson. A conversation that involved a number of subjects, with poetry being …

Christianity Epigraph “The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men’s minds not once or twice but again and again. And so, implying that the primary body is something else beyond earth, fire, air, and water, they gave the highest place a name of its …

Christianity Why Men Leave the Catholic Church Epigraph The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.– St. Irenaeus of Lyons.  Time to Get Real I’m not sure where to begin in engaging a subject such as this. But it is a matter …

How Game of Thrones Lost Its way Epigraph: “Long after midnight the towers and spires of Princeton were visible, with here and there a late-burning light – and suddenly out of the clear darkness the sound of bells. As an endless dream it went on; …