Slavery, Abortion and Denying Communion
Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it - So Randall Smith begins his must-read essay in The Catholic Thing -...
An Addendum to the Ugandan Martyrs, and King Mwanga
I was reading some of the corollary to the martyrs we celebrate today, the numerous 'pages' of King Mwanga put to death for resisting...
A Letter to a Local Paper
The local newspaper of the area in which I happen to live published an editorial a few weeks ago, claiming that those who have...
Dialogue with a Reader on the ‘Virtual’ Mass
(What follows is an exchange with a faithful reader, having his own qualms about 'virtual' Masses - I thought our dialogue, slightly adapted, might...
Letter to the Editor
I have spent the past 20 years as General Manager of the Living Bread Radio Network, an EWTN affiliate. It has been a great...
Sonnets, Ellipses and Harmony
On this day in 1609, Shakespeare's sonnets were first published, all 154 of them, by a certain Thomas Young, perhaps illegaly; but, they were...
Sheen and Fatima
In light of Our Lady of Fatima, and Carl Sundell's reflection on the great Bishop Sheen, I came across his own theological and historical...
Beatification of Catherine of Saint Augustine
(What follows is an excerpt from the homily of Pope Saint John Paul II beatifying Mother Catherine of Saint Augustine along with four others...
May the Fourth Be With You, Superheroes One and All
By historical coincidence, this May 6th is the day that Saint Francis Xavier arrived in the Portugese colony of Goa on the Indian coast,...
Oh, What a Tangled Web of Electrons
For a fuller perspective on the life and times of the great Catherine of Siena - who seems to grow in my own estimation...
