Update on the Editor
As some may know, I am on a pilgrimage-holiday, first to my native Scotland (whence I write at present), then on down to Rome....
Scandalous and Sacred Fashion
I must admit that I have trouble keeping up with the via mundi, the ways of the world, and have this abiding, if inchoate and...
Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans
Juditha Triumphans is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi, the only one of four he is known to have written which survived. Its date of...
The March for Life and the Contemplative Life
The annual March for Life is coming up in two days, this Thursday, May 10th, with Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral at 10:00 a.m.,...
Choices, Good and Bad
Today is the feast of Saint Matthias, the one chosen, as recounted in the first chapter of Acts, to replace Judas Iscariot, who betrayed...
The Ugly Beautiful
It’s Holy Thursday today, as you likely know, and this year I am confronted with humanity: humanity in all of its ugly beauty. That’s...
Boy Scouts, Volcanoes and Mother of God School
A blessed Sixth Sunday of Easter, as we journey with Christ and His Apostles towards Pentecost…Veni Creator Spiritus!
It had to happen, I suppose: The...
Holy Wars Medieval and Modern, Briefly Considered
From the time of Muhammad on, Islam has conquered lands by force of arms. The great warrior Charles Martel stopped the Muslim invasion of...
Mount Everest
It isn't the most difficult mountain to climb, but in many ways the most impressive. The top of the world, the highest spot one...
