Les Poètes Maudits and Their Bitter Fruits
One of the fastest growing 'religious' groups in the West are the 'nones', and I put that in scare quotes, since these are those...
Pèlerinage dans La Belle Province
For the feast of Saints Anne and Joachim on July 26th, just prior to the papal visit, I went on pilgrimage to the shrine...
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...
May the Fourth Be With You and The Shroud of Turin
Besides being 'Star Wars Day' May the Fourth is also, more realistically, the traditional commemoration of the Shroud of Turin, claimed to be the...
Saint Francis Borgia – Second Founder of the Jesuits
Saint Francis Borgia (1510 - 1572) was a true renaissance man, who lived two lives in one - first, as a married layman, then...
A Person’s A Person, No Matter How Tiny – At Least in Alabama
As Dr. Alexander Lozano points out, the Supreme Court of Alabama has decreed that frozen embryos - and, by extensions, embryos in general -...
Impure Thoughts and Morose Delectation
What we know of the saints is the least part of them.
So quipped Saint Philp Neri (+1595), and it is a saying that...
Thoughts on Notre Dame
We may rejoice at the re-opening of the Basilica of Notre-Dame, after its partial destruction in the fire on April 15th, 2019. But with...
Jurassic Wolf
Well, they've finally done it. Readers of a certain vintage may recall seeing Jurassic Park in full theatre mode, and being blown away by...
Whose Land Is It, After All?
The difficulty with apologies is that at some point someone’s going to take you at your word. If we claim that we’re living on...
