Placating Tyrants and Playing Catch up with the Culture of Death
From Justin Trudeau’s eyebrow apparently falling off during a press scrum (apparently it may have been an optical illusion), to his tiff with President...
Pastoral
Our May 2013 cover artist, Francis Dvorak, was previously featured in the January 2013 issue.
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...
Politics, Piggery and Doing One’s Duty
As the midterms make clear, the U.S. continues its continental divide, between the (ironically) red Republicans and the blue Democrats, with the former under...
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...
Pope Pius’ Truth and Reality Catching Up
A blessed feast of the Dedication of the Cathedral of Saint John Lateran to all our readers! The highest-ranking church in all Christendom, the...
Two Praetorians and a Jesuit
Saints Processus and Martinian (+67) were Praetorian Guards – the elite of the Roman legionaries – who were tasked with keeping watch over Saints...
All You Need is Love (Doo doo do do doo)!
“The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives.”
Yikes. Scandal. Gasp. The Internet explodes and sides begin to form. One...
Life, death, and lousy campgrounds
In the time that my family has been on the road, our journey has been predominantly dictated by where we my parents have to...
Three Saints for One
Today is a rarity in our liturgical calendar, as we celebrate no less than three saints, each of them optional memorials: In order of...
