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…
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…
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…
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…
Cyber espionage, as much as cyber imbecility, has been in the news frequently in recent years. Most recently was the revelation that the Vatican was hacked by the Chinese Government, which is yet another reason to argue that the whole…
This essay is one I have wanted to write for a long time, and one I have been thinking about for many months, if not years. One of the silver linings of COVID has been increased attention to the mental…
Words which reflect culture Some cultures have patterns of behavior or an outlook on life which is so distinct that they create words which at times are either extremely hard to translate, or words which reveal a deeper meaning in…
A Lent to Remember Lent as a season has always been a sort of a “back to school” for Christ’s disciples. No matter whether you’re eight or eighty-eight, everyone is invited to reenter a sort of spiritual catechumenate, to seek…
With the coming of the global Covid-19 Pandemic, many dioceses have suspended Public Masses and are now beginning to dispense the faithful from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass. I am fearful that this is going to to cause a…
In September 2019, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) released the results of a survey conducted in the spring of the same year. The subject was sexual abuse in seminaries, and there were 15 questions which quite…