Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable... think about such things.
The seven pillars of Western Civilization are the edifying edifices which tower over the landscape of the centuries as a fortress of faith and a beacon of reason. Islam has served throughout the...
Russell Amos Augustine Kirk is one of America’s foremost and most important thinkers, especially in the desiccated and mutilated 20th century, an era of horrific inhumanities and incessant blood-le...
If we learn how to wait while doing all we can to invite the Holy Spirit to take possession of us, then before too long all our hopes, all our deepest desires and yearnings will be realized. I never...
Despite our scientific prowess, to have a right view of creation, we still need to know that we are only a part of that creation. If we are tempted to think of ourselves as the true gods, we must...
In Cather's "The Professor’s House," Augusta’s devoutly Catholic presence is the presence of the real, the perennial presence of the reality which permeates the past, present and future, making sense...
Solzhenitsyn understood the crisis of our time—namely, the failure of those who make, enjoy, and judge the constitutionality of laws to appreciate the dire consequences of denying the place of...
Christopher Columbus offers us the example of those virtues that the old Romans called fortitude and constancy; and the example of those virtues that the early Christians called faith and hope. Half...
There will never be a time when even the best and the brightest bulbs among us shall know all that there is to know concerning God. I am not yet so lost in lexicography,” writes Dr. Johnson on...
So what were Shaw and Hemmingway on about? Who was this writer of genius and great good humor? In the world of letters, or within the convivial setting of a tavern, he was an undeniable presence. The...
As St. John Henry Newman explains in his book "The Idea of a University," education is the process by which a mind is formed not just to learn facts and ideas but to be able to think about how they...
Pope Pius, who had done more than anyone to make the Christian victory at Lepanto possible, is said to have burst into tears when news of it reached him. They have dared the white republics up the...
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and...
I have to admit that I did not immediately warm to Karen Ullo’s novel. This was due to my own prejudice against both historical fiction and women’s romance. I was mistaken. Ullo won me over, and I...
Two books about St. Francis: one by the protean English critic and one by an equally protean Greek. How, though, to treat their differences, especially since the books are unalike in length and...
Upon revisiting Chesterton’s "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" and reacquainting myself with his Napoleon, I realized that I, like the protagonist, was lacking the necessary laughter and love of friends...
Sometimes the Gospel calls us not so much to encounter the Lord but to take a look at ourselves, and before we know it, the Scriptures hold up a mirror before our stained and deformed faces, and then...
Thérèse recognized and gave thanks for God’s mercies, but can we say that she repaid the Lord for his mercies? Every August, the Dominican student brothers take a week-long silent retreat. During the...
Saint Therese’s spirituality is grounded firmly in the truth that God’s love comes before anything else in our lives. She understood that any relationship with God must begin from the acknowledgment...
"The Magic Flute" has been called Mozart’s “Masonic opera,” and so it is. Mozart was a serious Freemason. But the Masonic influence is of secondary importance to the power and precision of Mozart’s...
However one solves the mysterious Sword of Michael, it is a reminder to us in our hi-tech age that our ancestors had perhaps more technologies than our iPhones have dreamt of. They had a mystical...