Marcel Clement on Liberation Theology
Silvie D. Rousseau reports that the French philosopher Marcel Clement in his youth aspired to study philosophy, but was perplexed by the plethora of...
Long Live Buckfast Abbey
I begin this reflection from the beautiful and prayerful grounds of Buckfast Abbey, not far from the coast at Brixham, where I have been...
Merrie England Once More
As I begin this reflection, I am on my way to the Devon coast, having just passed through Bath, set up by the Romans...
An Update from Devonshire
A few words from dreekit Devon, with the heavy rain coming down here in the village of Brixham, on the south coast of England, most...
The Inestimable Value of a Pilgrimage
Just as the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord, we might say that the first step on the road to sanctity is...
The Echo of Glencoe
On the way to the Highlands, about thirty or so miles north of Dumbarton, one passes through a valley of sombre beauty and history,...
Ben Nevis
When one first arrives in Scotland, everything seems a wee bit, well, smaller or, as they might put it, ‘wee-er’. The streets are narrow,...
Liturgy and an Update
Anthony Esolen captures in a vivid and clear way what is wrong with the manner in which the Novus Ordo Mass is usually celebrated:...
Catholic Glasgow
On an intersection in Scotland’s largest city, at Glasgow Cross, the Jesuit priest Saint John Ogilvie, after brutal tortures by the ‘King’s Men’ in...
Sacred Art Briefly Considered
How often have we heard it said that beauty is in the mind of the beholder, that it has no objective existence of its...