Beauty Ever Ancient, Ever New
What can one say about Saint Augustine, the great bishop and doctor of the Church, who died on this day in the year of...
The Real Catherine the Great
Saint Catherine of Siena, born in 1347, and who died on this day in 1380, was in no uncertain terms a remarkable woman. Born...
Saint Colette of Corbie
Nicole Boellet (1381 - 1447) was a miraculous birth. Her childless, elderly parents, Robert and Marguerite, prayed to Saint Nicholas that they might conceive,...
Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily...
Laetare, O Maria
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation, when the divine Word was made incarnate in the womb of the Virgin Mary. When Dionysius Exiguus, who...
The Servite Saints of the Virgin Mary
The Seven Founders of the Servite Order commemorate the group of cloth merchants who in 1233 left everything to follow Christ, with a special...
Alphonsus of Ligouri, A Moral Teacher for All Ages
Saint Alphonsus Ligouri was a renaissance man, whose kind was a rarity back then, and even more so now in our age of degrees...
Hollywood’s Sense of Sin
In a radio address on October 26, 1946, with the horrors of World War II still fresh (if such be the term) in the...
Vanier’s Long Shadow
The plot thickens around affaire de Jean Vanier. I did not know he admitted to the sexual liasons in 2016, that the women had...
What’s Wrong with the University?
Chesterton wrote a book, a collection of essays, which he called 'What's Wrong with the World', and, it seems, a lot, even back in...