The Twilight of American Enlightenment
The average age of North Americans is forty-one; this means that most people have no personal recollection of the decade of the 1950s, the...
Echoes of Ronald Knox and C.S. Lewis
Some years ago I wrote rather a long winded play, Shaw vs Chesterton, an imaginary debate between two great friends, G.K. Chesterton and Bernard...
Confronting Misconceptions: A Critical Response to the Wayward Christology of Fr. Richard Rohr
Fr. Richard Rohr’s The Universal Christ is a popular spiritual book today. This New York Times Bestseller is rated highly in Amazon’s Religious Ethics...
By Reason Alone: Assembling the great puzzle
By Reason Alone: Assembling the Great Puzzle
by Jacek Bacz
Justin Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-98131-844-8
At the start of this rewarding book Jacek Bacz states that it is...
The Ladder of Divine Ascent:Â A book to read during Lent
One of the great spiritual books that it is surely advisable to be read during the Lenten journey is The Ladder of Divine Ascent, written...
Requiescat in Pace
Pope Francis (1936 - 2025), has died on this Easter Monday morning, after a controversial and often turbulent reign of just over 12 years....
Festival and Ferial, by Anna Rist: A Review
Festival and Ferial
Anna Rist
Kaufmann Publishing, St. Simon’s Island , 2014
ISBN : 978-0-9905329-3-4
In one of his Odes (IV.2) Horace describes the danger of trying to...
Evelyn Waugh’s Bitter Trial
“It must be observed that if the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly.” St.Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II,...
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...
Book Review: Coached by the Curé, Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney
(Here is a very fitting and a propos review and meditation on this Solemnity of the Sacred Heart from Father Marco Testa on Saint...


















