I have always had a particular fondness for the Saints of the Counter Reformation, I suppose because they were such exemplars of apostolic zeal in a time of great social upheaval. They were men and women of admirable enterprise, often…
Sometimes very important turning points in history have a knack for falling on important Feast Days on the Church’s calendar. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 comes to mind, with the subsequent declaration of war on…
George Orwell in his classic 1984 once famously said that the future of the human race under totalitarianism would be a “boot stomping on a human face, forever.” Although like most dystopian classics, Orwell saw with a certain amount of…
A Happy Year of Grace 2021 to all readers and friends of the blog Scutum et Lorica! I am very blessed to be here. One of the top pieces of advice given to bloggers when they begin their output, which…