Autism and the Mentally Disturbed
You've likely heard about the letter from “one pissed off mother” that was delivered to the home of the grandmother of an autistic kid...
Christmas 1856-style
Ever seen American Girl dolls? The dolls are based on characters from different time periods and come with long, detailed stories about where they...
But ’twill take root and flourish
You may take the shamrock from your hat and cast it on the sod,
But ’twill take root and flourish still, tho’ under foot it’s...
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, London, 1926
Split Infinitives. The English-speaking world may be divided...
30th Sunday: We will not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good.
On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets (Mt 22:40).
Our Gospel text contains what is sometimes referred to as the Great Commandment,...
Managing Mammon
You can’t run the Church on Hail Marys. - Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, former head of the Vatican Bank
A new book about the history of the...
Ad Multos Annos, Father Alphonse de Valk, Fifty Years a Priest.
It is fitting on this feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of life, that we offer a hearty and warm congratulations to Father...
An Encounter with Gene Roddenberry: The Traveling Troubadour Meets the Great Bird of the...
There were many adventures to be had as a “Traveling Troubadour”. Hailing from Fort Lee, New Jersey (known as “The Silent Motion Picture Capital...
Must We Believe that Islam is Peaceful?
In another well-reasoned article by William Kilpatrick (we may disagree with some of his tone, but his points are good), he alludes to a...
Apostasy in Shusaku Endo’s Silence
A recent article in First Things by J.D. Flynn reflects upon Shusaku Endo’s 1966 Japanese novel Silence, now being released as a film directed by Martin Scorcese (which...
