It might strike many college professors—immersed in a campus atmosphere that writes off the American Founders for complicity in slavery—as odd that I still get, at my little Catholic liberal arts college, questions every year from students about George Washington being a Freemason. In the midst of the preparations for the 250th anniversary of the…

“Two parents have generated us for death; two parents have generated us for life.” This is a statement St. Augustine proclaimed in Sermon 22. The parents of death are, of course, Adam and Eve—as they ushered in original sin and the Fall of man. And who are the parents of life? Namely, according to Augustine—none…

Editor’s note: reminder that anyone who devoutly visits a cemetery during the Octave (between November 1st and 8th), praying — even mentally — for the departed, may obtain one plenary indulgence per day, applicable only to the souls in Purgatory, under the usual conditions. Above: photo credit. From the Patristic readings at Matins in the…