W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), one of the greatest of Irish poets, was also a staunch nationalist. So much of the impetus for the establishment of an Irish Free State apart from British hegemony was a long cultural memory of oppression and…
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…
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…
G.K. Chesterton once famously said that the mind is to truth what the mouth is to food. We need to close them around something solid, and nourishing. Today on Holy Thursday, the Church in most of the world is experiencing…
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…
Last week, President Trump, in response to historic strain among American families and businesses, signed a $2,000,000,000,000 stimulus package. I felt it was important to write out those numbers, just to emphasize how massive this package truly is. Although admittedly…
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…
New Year, New Kanye People love conversion stories. This is a fact that transcends religion and culture. This is especially true when this involves some degree of vindication of the other side’s claims. Whether the claims are of ultimate metaphysical…
One piece of news that may have escaped readers during the Christmas Holidays was one from December 27, at which time the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, announced that their Bishop, Daniel Conlon, was leaving the Diocese and taking a medical…