The Isolation of Margaret of Castello

Margaret of Castello (+1287 - 1320) is the patroness of the unborn, the disabled, the blind and, we may add of our own limited...

Evelyn Waugh and the Mass of the Ages

I was struck as I finished up reading over a small volume of letters by the great English writer Evelyn Waugh, author of such...

The Good Side of the Covid Crisis

And, therefore, my own good daughter, do not let your mind be troubled over anything that shall happen to me in this world.  Nothing...

The Mystery of Salvific Suffering

As we move towards Holy Week in this last week of Lent - in the midst of this global crisis, the unfolding effects of which...

Ad Orientem, et Pro Populo

The Bishop of Boise, Idaho, Peter F. Christensen, has specifically forbidden his priests, even in their ultra-private Masses now mandated, from celebrating ‘ad orientem’....

Stats, Reality and Repentance

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics… So quipped Mark Twain, and, in the main, he was right. Statistics can be...

The Re-Consecration of England Through Our Lady of Walsingham

Tomorrow, March 29th, in the year of Our Lord 2020, five centuries after the beginning of what is known as the 'Protestant Reformation', England...

Finding a Balance

Aristotle wrote that virtue resides in a mean, a balance between two extremes, finding that sweet spot in the middle whereby one does the...

King David’s Take on Covid

Back in biology class, we debated whether viruses were ‘alive’. They’re certainly the lowest form of living thing, if living at all. They cannot...

Urbi et Orbi Blessing

Pope Francis is inviting Catholics - indeed, all people of good will - to witness and receive his Urbi et Orbi - to the...