All twelve days
“Therefore your end is on you,
Is on you and your kings,
Not for a fire in Ely fen,
Not that your gods are nine or ten,
But...
Lepanto, Language and Hurricanes
Today, the feast of the Most Holy Rosary, marks the 444th anniversary of one of the most decisive battles not only in naval...
Trudeau, Trump and the Rule of Law
President Trump's recent firing of James Comey, now-former head of the FBI, has raised hackles, mainly amongst liberals, who at one point had no...
It’s Church teaching that matters
A first column for a new year for a Roman Catholic magazine. Let’s ask a few basic questions about what it means to be...
Conservative Capitulation
To capitulate derives from the Latin root capis, capitis, 'head', and literally means to cease to resist an opponent by drawing up terms under...
A Few Good Men
This past Saturday was the solemnity of the birth of Saint John the Baptist, a feast that commemorates the beginning of the end of...
The Catholic Land Movement
Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P., S.T.M., from the Catholic Land Movement: it's motives.
C.T.S.: London, 1932.
Out of Egypt have I called my son (Mt 2:15, Jer...
Bach’s Musical Offering
Today marks the 267th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, who passed into eternity this day in 1750, after a rather barbaric...
Lives Noble and Ignoble
Today is the feast of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz (+1637) and his companion martyrs, put to death by the anti-Catholic shogunate in Japan, and who...
A Triptych of Saints
Propitiously, we celebrate a triptych of saints on this November day:
The first, in time, was Saint Clement (+99 A.D.), traditionally accepted as the third...