One of my lifelong hobbies includes old manuscripts, especially Medieval ones. There is almost an Indiana Jones adventure quality I feel to looking at these texts which were made with such artistic flair and serious labor. Call me weird, but…
For many devout Catholics who join together to pray the current Pentecost Novena, a popular theme is that of the Nine Gifts of the Holy Spirit, as listed by Saint Paul: “…love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and…
I love ‘critical biographies’ of Saints. Hagiography as a literary genre tends to make facile and one-dimensional portraits of our Hallowed Heroes, but critical biographies put color, flesh and blood on the alabaster. One of my favorites is by Frederick…
Tacitus, (56-120 AD) the Great Latin Silver Age Historian and keen observer of human nature, never lacked for quips about politics and war, because it is in both those fields that the sublimity and depravity of human nature are on…