Anton Bruckner’s Locus Iste: This Holy Place
As we celebrate the the dedication of the basilica of Saint John Lateran, the primary church of Christendom, at this end of the Octave...
What Beatrix Potter Tells Us of a Life Well Lived
I read a biography about Beatrix Potter, and I was amazed at how much I learned about virtue from her life. She was an...
Eliot’s Ash Wednesday
T.S. Eliot published his poem Ash Wednesday in 1930, after he had composed during his conversion to Anglicanism (in 1927). The theme is, fittingly,...
Bare Knuckles Apologetics: Richard Dawkins Revisited
The British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is possibly the most ubiquitous atheist on the planet. He has dedicated himself to countless books, lectures, and...
Musical Offering: Starry, Starry Night
On this July 27th, in 1890, Vincent van Gogh - who suffered from mental illness for much of his life - shot himself in...
A Christmas Carol: Thoughts, and an Audio Book
Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol was first published on this December 19 back in 1843, and it has been a much beloved classic...
The Definitely Not Complacent Flannery O’Connor
I recently reread Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot. What does that have to do with Flannery O’Connor, you might ask? Well, bear with me....
Saint Patrick’s Magnificat
Towards the end of his life, Saint Patrick wrote his 'Confessions' which, like his near-contemporaneous Saint Augustine's autobiography of the same title, is meant...
Fabric of Resurrection and Redemption: The Gown of Stillness
Editor's note: this reflection was originally posted by the Catholic Artist Connection. The mission of the Catholic Artist Connection is to connect and support...
Musical Offering: Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622, was one of Josef Ratzinger's favorite pieces of music, or at least so I recall reading once, even...
