My Sister’s Keeper: A Pro-Life Book Review
It all begins with a bruise: a little clover-shaped bruise. While bathing her two-year-old daughter, Sarah finds a trail of little brown bruises running...
On the Beach, With Benedict and Hope
Pope Benedict XVI, in his second encyclical, the 2008 Spe Salvi (Salvific Hope) offers a distinction from the Letter to the Hebrews: We as...
Pope John Paul II’s First Holy Thursday Letter to Priests
LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II
TO ALL THE PRIESTS
ON THE OCCASION OF HOLY THURSDAY 1979
Dear Brother Priests,
For you I am a...
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...
Palestrina’s Iesu Rex Admirabilis
The feast of Christ the King (in the usus antiquior) was put in place on this last Sunday of October to counteract so-called Reformation...
J.S. Bach and Saint Michael
Michaelmas of 1724 - the 29th of September, now the feast of all the Archangels - saw the first performance of J.S. Bach's cantata,...
The Catechism of Hockey
The Catechism of Hockey
by Alyssa Bormes
American Chesterton Society Books, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-97444-950-0
“What if Wayne Gretzky’s mother was his first teacher of hockey and supported him...
Francisco Guerrero’s Ave Virgo
A fitting way to begin this month of August, dedicated to Our Lady, with some music in her honour. Here is a motet by...
Wolfgang Smith’s Legacy: A Metaphysician for Our Times
On July 19, 2024, the world lost Wolfgang Smith, one of the most underappreciated yet profoundly important thinkers of our time. A rare polymath,...
Edvard Grieg’s Ave Maris Stella
To complement our devotion on this memorial-feast of the Presentation of Our Lady, here is Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg's, polyphonic composition of the ancient...
