Scotus Unravels the Social Order Yet Further
In 1964, the United States passed the Civil Rights Act, which forbade unjust discrimination based on ârace, color, religion, sex or national originâ. Today,...
Obedience in a Time of Crisis – A Cross in the Road
Anarchy is the condition in any society where there is no law, no rule, no measure â chaos, and may be said to be...
Erastianism and a Free Church
Thomas Erastus (1524 â 1583) was a Swiss physician and theologian who adopted the newfangled heretical doctrines of Ulrich Zwingli, a sort of extreme...
Henry and Catherine and What Might Have Been
It was on this day in 1509 that Henry VIII, of the recently founded, and some say upstart, Tudor dynasty, married Catherine of Aragon,...
Son of Consolation
It is fitting that we celebrate Barnabas, the âson of consolationâ, or the âson of encouragementâ, around the time of Pentecost, for the Holy...
A.A., Catholics and Temperance
This is the 85th anniversary of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, back in 1935 by Bill Wilson, a WW I veteran and stockbroker, and...
Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom
A blessed âfeastâ of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, Sedes Sapientiae, an ancient and venerable title the Virgin Mary as the Chora tou Achoretou,...
American Apocalypse
âTis difficult to write history in the midst of it â for any âstoryâ needs a beginning, a middle and an end, and at...
Boniface’s Good Work
Saint Boniface, bishop and martyr, was hacked to death by a band of Frisian idol-worshippers on this day, June 5, 754, along with 52...
The Opticks of Justice
Isaac Newton penned his treatise Opticks in 1704 â and who am I to improve upon his spelling, about which they were not exactly...
