Purgatorio, Canto 6

Tony Osborne is a professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University. He is a member of Humanities Washington’s Speaker’s Bureau, and he writes and speaks about leadership and motivation, art, pop culture and film. Questions for Reflection Why do the souls in...

Purgatorio, Canto 5

Alina Beary is an Associate Professor in the Torrey Honors College at Biola University. She is interested in virtue ethics, the deadly sin tradition, implicit biases, and she primarily studies St. Thomas Aquinas. Questions for Reflection Why does Dante take pleasure...

Purgatorio, Canto 4

Anthony Clark is an Associate Professor of Chinese History at Whitworth University. He is the author of Catholicism and Buddhism: The Contrasting Lives and Teaching of Jesus and the Buddha and China’s Christianity: From Missionary to Indigenous Church. Questions...

Purgatorio, Canto 3

Rachel Teubner is a Research Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Australian Catholic University. Her research explores Christian thought in Medieval and Renaissance literature, and she is the author of the forthcoming Practicing Humility: A Theological...

Purgatorio, Canto 2

Fr. Stephen Gregg is Choirmaster, Our Lady of Dallas Cisternian Abbey and teaches English, Fine Arts, Latin and Theology at the Cistercian Prepatory School. He is also pursuing a doctorate in English at the University of Dallas.  Reflection Questions: Dante and Virgil...