Bernardine, Usury and the Holy Name
(The saint today get muted, due to the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, on the Monday after Pentecost, in the Novus Ordo....
Macron’s Praetorian, Mexicans and Moustaches
Emmanuel Macron's entire security detail - his personal praetorian guard, if you will - quit en masse rather than submit to his requirement that...
But Your Grace: Christ Is a Sacrificial Priest
A very merry Sixth Day of Christmas, when my true love game to me six geese a-layin'. And may your metaphorical geese lay many...
Law and the Militant Church
There are three 'dimensions' to the Church in her pilgrimage through time: The Church suffering, in purgatory; the Church triumphant, in heaven; and the...
Distinguishing Sin
Sin is complex, with multiple layers and levels. What is offered here will hopefully help discern our own moral state, as well as, to...
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...
Pretense at Saint John Lateran
Pretense:
 A false appearance or action intended to deceive.
 A professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext.
Something imagined or pretended. (https://www.wordnik.com/words/pretense)
What term...
Becoming Eunuchs for the Kingdom: What Gives?
In Matthewâs Gospel (19:12) Our Lord exhorts us to become âeunuchsâ, which is not to be taken too literally, even if there are rumours...
The Astronomer and the Physicist
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The ancient Greeks â Plato and Aristotle, especially â made a distinction between two approaches to science. (And, by science, they meant anything that...
Saint Bernard of Montjoux, or Menthon
The iconic Saint Bernard dogs take their name from today's saint, Saint Bernard of Menthon - also known as of Montjoux - an 11th...
