St Thomas More Catholic Church Vryheid

04/10/2025

02/10/2025

Young Americans and people around the world are flocking to the Catholic Church. The Free Press spoke to them to find out why.

09/04/2023

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
— Mark Twain

28/10/2022

/ Henrik Ibsen /
"Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian-Danish playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006. Ibsen's early poetic and cinematic play Peer Gynt has strong surreal elements. After Peer Gynt Ibsen abandoned verse and wrote in realistic prose. Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety."
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Born: Henrik Johan Ibsen, March 20, 1828, Skien, Telemark, Norway
Died: May 23, 1906, Kristiania, Norway, (modern Oslo)
Occupation: Writer, playwright
Genres: Naturalism
Notable works:Brand (1865), Peer Gynt (1867), A Doll's House (1879), Ghosts (1881), An Enemy of the People (1882), The Wild Duck (1884), Rosmersholm (1886), Hedda Gabler (1890)
Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2211, Delphi Classics

28/10/2022

/ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /
"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language, his work having a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. Goethe took up residence in Weimar in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, in 1782. Goethe was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement."
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Born: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, August 28, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
Died: March 22, 1832, Weimar, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Confederation
Occupation: Poet, novelist, playwright, natural philosopher, diplomat, civil servant
Alma mater: Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Literary movement: Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism, Romanticism in science
Notable works: Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Elective Affinities, "Prometheus", Zur Farbenlehre, Italienische Reise, West–östlicher Divan

28/10/2022

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Book: https://amzn.to/3TuJyYh
The Essential Kierkegaard Paperback – May 30, 2000 by Søren Kierkegaard

28/10/2022

“Education isn’t something you can finish.”
— Isaac Asimov

11/07/2019

A recently introduced bill in Ohio would add scientific information about the development of the unborn child to the state’s public and charter school curriculum.

03/07/2019

According to Pope Francis, a Christian can’t just be a good person and skip Mass on Sundays, because it is the Eucharist that provides the nourishment needed to truly live the Gospel well in our daily lives.

09/06/2019

08/06/2019

On Friday, May 31, four lanes of traffic on a major thoroughfare in the city of Chicago shut down for an hour and a half, while 3,200 people marched past.

05/06/2019