Homeric Reduction: An Odyssean Review
With Robert Fagles’ 1996 translation of Homer’s Odyssey fresh in my mind, I went to see Chrisopher Nolan’s new film a couple weeks ago....
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...
Sunday Musical Offering: 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...
The Two Passions of J.S. Bach
As we enter in Holy Week, it is fitting to suggest some solemn music to fit the season, here the two settings of the...
Tallis’ Gaude Gloriosa
For this Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception - and a blessed one may it be - here is the opening section to a motet...
The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design
Father Martin Hilbert, C.O. has written a remarkable book. His ‘The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design’, an argument for seeing God’s handiwork and providence...
Three Characters in Jane Eyre as Windows into the Moral Life
I recently reread Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, which I first read when I was a teenager; now, in my thirties, I have since reread...
Not All Prophets Wear Tin Foil: A Critical Review of QAnon, Chaos, and the...
In an age of spiritual confusion, eroding trust, and institutional abdication, QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross, edited by Michael W. Austin and Gregory L....
Bach’s Cantata in Praise of the Baptist
Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam is one of a few cantatas J.S. Bach compose in honouor of Saint John the Baptist, first performed in...
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...
