S.A.D.S, Bieber and the Pope
I did not know that Ray Liotta had died, in his sleep. He was in the midst of filming a new movie, and engaged...
Saint Gabriel Possenti – God, Prayer…and Guns?
Gabriel of the Seven Sorrows, who died on this day in 1862, may be seen as a kind of male Saint ThérÚse, but, as...
That’s A Nice Bank Account You Got There…Shame if Something Happened to It.
The headline has it that media commentator Nigel Farange is getting the Trudeau treatment: Not quite, but close: No reason has been given, but...
Saint Dominic of Silos and His Chanting Monks
Saint Dominic of Silos died on this December 20th, in 1073, at the monastery he had founded in the southern part of northern Spain....
Good Friday and Suffering
Evil and pain is always a mystery, that whole mysterium iniquitatis, of which Saint Paul writes (2 Thess 2:7). In 1984, Pope Saint John...
Saint Arsenius the Great, and the Silent
Saint Arsenius, called âthe Greatâ, (350 â 445), whom we recall on this 19th of July, was one of the early monks of the...
Trump 2.0, Redivivus
(This is a revision of a previous post, with some new material â as the theme suggests, itâs difficult to keep up with the...
Father Francis Caracciolo’s Burning Heart of Zeal
Saint Francis Caracciolo (1563 - 1608) was a near contemporary of Saint Philip Neri, whom he resembles in some ways, and with whom the...
Lost Lectures or The Fruits of Experience
Maurice Baring, Lost Lectures of the Fruits of Experience.
Peter Davies Ltd, London: 1932. From: High-Brows and Low-Brows
Over and over again it has been my fortune...
