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The callowness into which American discourse has descended might be evidenced by The New York Times’ alarmist headlines over what flag flies outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s house. After an initial brouhaha over whether Old Glory was flown upside down—a sign once universally recognized as distress (which might accurately describe our national situation) but…
Other articles in this series: The Art of Dress – Two Schools of Thought The Art of Dress – Problems with Normalcy The Art of Dress – Learning from the Valiant Woman The Art of Dress – What Nuns can Teach Us The Art of Dress – A Survey of Principles Responding to my recent…
Secular media in English found it newsworthy to blast the Anglophone world about what the Pope might have said. First of all, why is the secular world amazed by what might have happened? Is this “secular sin” so bad that even an allegation such as this is considered worthy of the BBC? It was so…
The Imitation of Christ is among the most widely read and best-loved religious books in the world. As early as 1450, more than 250 manuscript copies had been produced; by 1779, no less than 1,800 editions and translations existed; and today it is inestimable how many have been circulated. A #2 all-time spot in history…
Last summer, when Fr. Alex Mugalaasi from Uganda invited me to visit to speak in five seminaries, each with 250 seminarians and about 20 priest faculty, I jumped at the proposal. And, oh, am I happy that I did! It was clearly an opportunity of a lifetime and a divine appointment. The Church in Uganda…
Above: the Enthronement. The month of June belongs to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It’s already been claimed for His Majesty for centuries, and the Kingdom of His Sacred and Eucharistic Heart already holds sway over the universe since His glorious Ascension to His Throne – how much more a single month in the calendar…
Lots of different words are used to describe the qualities a man should have. I enjoy seeing what other languages are getting at with their vocabulary for manliness. The highly poetic language of Old English abounds in poetic descriptions of masculine prowess, strength, and wisdom. The heroes of Beowulf’s day are described as full of…
With its roots in the Civil War, Memorial Day was established as a way to honor the fallen, to grieve their loss, and to be thankful that these soldiers—with their hopes and dreams for the future—died so that we all may have our own dreams for the future. It was originally called Decoration Day because…
The Catechism of the Catholic Church 234 says that the doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity is the We might want to get this one right. The other mysteries of our faith revolve around what God does and has done. This Sunday we focus on the Doer. In the early Church this Sunday was liturgically…
When T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948, it was not on the strength of the plays he had written that determined the choice of the Committee in Stockholm. Leaving aside Murder in the Cathedral, his moving dramatization of the death by martyrdom of Thomas Beckett, which came out in 1935, he’d…
