The Fall of Malta? But Not of Vella
We need more leaders like George Vella, current president of Malta. The small jewel of an island nation, in the middle of the Mediterranean,...
John of Damascus, Defender of Icons and the Last of the Eastern Fathers
Was there ever a golden age of Catholic and Islamic relations? The evidence for such is slim, with the two religions seemingly incompatible and...
Saint Bernard’s Three Advents
In one of his sermons, the Cistercian abbot, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (+1090) distinguishes three Advents of Christ: The first, at Christmas, when He...
Beauty and the Beast-ly
The author asks, Why is Everything So Ugly?, and his answer is an intriguing reflection on the lack of beauty in modern New York....
The Holy House of Loreto
The memorial of Lady of Loreto was put back into the universal calendar, on this day by Pope Francis three years ago, in December,...
History is Christological, Mariological – and Josephological
A fruitful read by Peter Leithart: Man's Marian Future. And not only is our future Marian, but so is our past and present, but...
John of Kanty’s Holy Hidden Life
On this Christmas Eve's Eve, we quietly celebrate the commemoration of John of Cantius (1390 - 1473), or 'Kanty' in the original Polish transliteration...
On the Beach, With Benedict and Hope
Pope Benedict XVI, in his second encyclical, the 2008 Spe Salvi (Salvific Hope) offers a distinction from the Letter to the Hebrews: We as...
Thoughts on Father Pavone
What is one to say about the laicization of Father Frank Pavone? (so we will refer to him, even in a posteriori sense, for...
A Take on the Tragic Fruits of Fiducia Supplicans
So the DDF – the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the CDF, and before that, the SCDF, the ‘S’ standing for...