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...
History, Humanity, and Redemption: A Review of “To Crown With Liberty”
I hope this review might provide a double service to readers. I am excited to promote both a new novel, which provides the core...
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...
A traditional gem from a young composer: a review of “New Catholic Hymns”
It is unusual to encounter newly-written sacred music that appeals to traditional hymnodic taste; perhaps it is unsurprising that when such music does appear,...
Veni Creator Spiritus
A blessed, joyous and grace-filled solemnity of Pentecost to all our readers, the feast of the descent of the Holy Spirit, the public manifestation...
Bairstow’s Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Sir Edward Bairstow (1874 - 1946) was an Anglican organist and composer, who wrote mainly for the church. Our schola is learning his polyphonic...
Littlest Suffering Souls: Children Whose Short Lives Point Us to Christ
Austin Ruse, Littlest Suffering Souls: Children Whose Short Lives Point Us to Christ. Charlotte: TAN Books, 2017.
     With modern medical breakthroughs, treatments and medicines,...
Bach’s Cantata for Trinity Sunday
J.S. Bach composed this cantata for Trinity Sunday in 1725, first performed on May 27th of that year. The libretto begins with Es ist...
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,...
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...
