Saint Paschal Baylon’s Humility and Joy
The life of Paschal Baylon (1540 - 1592) has much in common with that of his fellow Franciscan, Joseph of Cupertino (+1633). They were...
Is That the Sound of Crunchy Crickets?
As the title of this thread has it, they're starting to slip the bugs in. No, no, not computer bugs, which have been around...
Thoughts on Father Pavone
What is one to say about the laicization of Father Frank Pavone? (so we will refer to him, even in a posteriori sense, for...
Saint Pachomius the Great
The great desert Father, and founder of cenobitic monasticism, Saint Pachomius, died on this 9th day of May in 348 A.D., eight years before...
Saint Ignatius of Antioch, God’s Ground Wheat
Saint Ignatius of Antioch (+107) joyfully âwent to the lionsâ, as the saying goes, meeting his martyrdom in the arena of the Coliseum in...
Entropy and the Last Word
When Sadi Carnot formulated the Second Law of Thermodynamics in the early 19th century, a law also known as the law of entropy, people...
All For Katy’s Wedding
On this day in 1525, Martin Luther married Katherine von Bora. Luther was â ontologically speaking â still a priest, a member of the...
Christmas and the Mysterium Iniquitatis
There will be some empty chairs around the Christmas table this year, after a Saudi psychiatrist, Tabel Al-Abdulmohesn, plowed his BMW into a Christmas...
Saints Sabbas and Julius: Contra Paganism, Pro Homoousios
There are two saints commemorated on this April 12th. The first is Saint Sabbas the Goth (+372), a sort of âvillage foolâ, but the...
Fakes Abound, but Truth Abounds Even More
We live in an unreal world, which is to say, one unhinged from the truth. One way to know what is right, is to...
