Starved for God
And the Lord spoke all these words:
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the...
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...
Obama: enforcer of the sexual revolution
In the last few years, US President Barack Obama has gone to great lengths to implement his vision of a sexual revolution for all...
MĎ‹ller and Polycarp
While we're on the topic of clarity, an excellent read is this recent piece by Gerhard Cardinal MĎ‹ller in First Things. Quite a limpid,...
The Grace of Fatherhood
On Father’s Day, we celebrate the great grace of being a father; such a vocation means that a man is being entrusted by God,...
Saint Louis IX: A Most Christian King
St. Louis IX (1214-1270) has been considered by many to be the greatest king of medieval Christendom. As the quintessential Catholic monarch, he ruled...
The Tragic Dignity of Margaret Pole
A brief mention of today's saint, Blessed Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (+1541), the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, who was in turn...
The Migrant Question
One is never sure what to believe from the endless avalanche of stories from the main-stream media. A few weeks ago the migrant caravan...
Lassus’ Psalmi Poenitentialis
Orlando de Lassus (ca. 1532 - 1594), a Dutch composer of the late Renaissance, was also one of the most prolific and influential, up...
The Ratzinger Report Revisited
The Italian journalist and Catholic convert Vittorio Messori in 1985 published his two hundred page interview with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict...
