The Longing Beneath the Roles: Kilmer, the Catechism, and the Search for God
The cinematic roles of Val Kilmer - who died April 1st, 2025 at the age of 65 after a long cinematic career - did...
Of Work and Communists Bearing Gifts
In his 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II defined work as 'any activity of man', contrary to our modern notion, so immersed in...
Live by Truth, or Die by Lies
We’re living in an era of obfuscation or, to frame the matter more bluntly, a veritable blizzard of lies, ones that are difficult to...
Running away
I don’t usually have much trouble figuring out things to write about. Every now and then, though, I wind up with a serious case...
Lenten Third Sunday Music: de Lassus and Chants
For this Third Sunday in Lent, given the circumstances of the world, the suggestions of Pater Ignotus include this setting of the seven penitential...
The Faceless Niqab
The recent ban in the province of Quebec on the niqab, the Islamic face-covering, when receiving 'public services' (reserved, of course, only for females)...
Marry that virtuous Atheist!
A few months ago, a girl I know was struggling with the question of whether she, a Catholic, should continue dating her non-Catholic boyfriend.
At...
5th. Sunday of Easter: Abide in Me as I abide in you
Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abide in the vine, neither...
Blasphemy and Bubble Zones
I read recently that Pope John Paul II had a vision of Europe being taken over by Islam, the continent’s once-vibrant Christianity gone silent...
Real Black Holes and Fantasy Budgets
We now have our first actual photographic image of a black hole, those theoretical entities first posited in a rudimentary way by John Michell...
