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Editor's Corner
Todd Beamer, Our Lady and God’s Perfect Will
Precision and clarity are requisite in theology, a theme developed by the great Josef Pieper. One of the reasons for this, besides the great importance of understanding revelation correctly, is that the object of...
Editor's Corner
Saint Joseph of Cupertino’s Joyful Levity
According to the laws of physics, a man should not be able to fly, at least without technological help. But are not the 'laws of physics', as Chesterton posits, themselves miracles? Why should trees...
Editor's Corner
Saint Hildegarde von Bingen, a Renaissance Woman Before the Renaissance
Hildegarde von Bingen (+1179) is one of the newest saints in the liturgical calendar, canonized 'equipollently' by Pope Benedict XVI on May 12, 2012 (since she had always been regarded as a saint, but...
Editor's Corner
Saint Robert Bellarmine’s Clarity of Mind and Soul
In the midst of the theological and cultural confusion in which our Church is mired, we could use a few more men with the clear, disciplined, Thomistic mind of Robert Bellarmine (+1621), bishop, cardinal,...
Featured Highlights
Saints Cornelius and Cyprian, Shepherds for Christ and Martyrs for His Truth
Saint Cornelius was Pope for a scant two years in the middle of the third century, elected in 251 and put to death in 253 in the persecution under Emperor Decius. During his short...
Editor's Corner
Mater Dolorosa, Mother of Sorrows, and the Stabat Mater
A blessed memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows to all. This feast was first celebrated in the year 1233 - in the youth of that greatest of centuries, when Thomas Aquinas was but a...
Nota in Brevis
O Crux Ave Spes Unica
A blessed and glorious feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross! Also called the Triumph of the Cross and, at times, the 'Invention' of the Cross, in the original sense of that term,...
Nota in Brevis
John Chrysostom: The Man with the Golden Mouth
Saint John Chrysostom (+407) was a model bishop, a doctor of the Church, an ascetic and contemplative monk who wanted only to retreat from the turmoil of life in the Eastern empire, and live...
