Catholic Insight
Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
In this Jubilee year of hope, friends of mine, Pico and Ruth, are organizing a pilgrimage to Spain, to walk part of the final...
Five Years Ago…
A pithy paragraph from Mark Steyn, summing up much in a few words:
It was five years ago that the entire western world except Sweden...
Saint Jan Sarkander, Martyr for Confession and the Faith
Jan Sarkander (1576 – 1620) was a Polish Catholic priest, tortured to death by Protestants over the course of a month at the beginning...
Motets in Honour of Two Very Just Men
Arvo Pärt , an Estonian composer (born 1935, and still going - those hardy Estonians!), is known for his method of tintinabulli, which is...
The Ave Regina Caelorum
The Ave Regina Caelorum is the Marian antiphon sung during Lent. Its origins and composer are unknown, but manuscripts exist from the early 12...
Pope Francis’ Thirteenth
Thirteen years ago, on a fateful March 13th in the year of Our Lord 2013, Jorge Bergoglio was elected the 266th Pope, taking the...
Novena Prayers to Saint Joseph
March 10th - or 11th, if you want to end on the Solemnity itself - is the day to begin the novena to Saint...
Allegri’s Miserere and Mozart’s Memory
As we begin the Lenten pilgrimage on this first Sunday, a fitting help to our deovtion is Allegri's Miserere, his unsurpassed musical setting of...
Eliot’s Ash Wednesday
T.S. Eliot published his poem Ash Wednesday in 1930, after he had composed during his conversion to Anglicanism (in 1927). The theme is, fittingly,...
Letter to the Editor: Climate Insanity
(What follows is an open letter to the editor of various local papers where I live, and I thought it would do for a...
