Institutions form the backbone of any stable and long lasting civilization. In law, education, religion, science, government and more, institutions are the product of the accumulated experience and practice of millions of human beings. They are the sentinels of law…
Most people when it comes to conflict may be divided into two categories: the conflict-seeking, and the conflict-adverse. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. A person who is naturally pugnacious can be a good person to take the “bull by…
On December 8, 2020, Pope Francis in his Apostolic Letter Patris Corde announced the year of Saint Joseph for most of the calendar year 2021, which will be completed on December 8, 2021. This announcement took much of the Catholic…
Almost a year ago, just prior to the lockdowns which were imposed upon much of the United States, a pathogen of largely unknown virulence arrived on these shores. In those days, faced with so many questions regarding the lethality and…
It feels like just yesterday when, after taking my Canonical Retreat, I felt called to begin this blog. That year, I had fasted on only tea and water during the duration of the retreat, and had celebrated several Votive Masses…
EDIT: As I was setting up my Breviary for Lent, I noticed that the name of Ash Wednesday in the Latin is in fact Feria IV Cinerum, which does NOT have the significance I thought it did previously. I apologize…
Recently, people have been passing around a piece on Pillar Catholic, Who is responsible for these controversial Twitter Priests? It is an interesting article, although not for the reasons explicitly set forth in the article itself. Let’s start with the…
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…