Anthony Esolen
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- Aug 24, 2026
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- Aug 21, 2026
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No Profit, All Loss by Anthony Esolen (opens the original)
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The Humanity Lost When Our Ends Are Denied by Anthony Esolen “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Matt. 16:26). So said the Lord, after Peter, with those good intentions that pave a certain broad, smooth, easy, inoffensive way, rebuked him and tried to talk him out of going to Jerusalem. For Jesus said that in Jerusalem he would suffer at the hands of the elders and the priests, and give up his life. More than justifying his own way toward death
Hope, the Little Girl by Anthony Esolen (opens the original)
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Dante stands before the gates of Hell and reads the inscription upon the arch, whose last line is one of the profoundest and most terrible written by man: ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE. I have explained it to my students thus: The true virtue of faith does not exist in Hell, but a sort of minimal and ineffectual form of it does. “The devils believe, and tremble,” says James (2:19). The true virtue of charity does not exist in Hell, but desires and passions do, however unfulfilling or misery
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