Malcolm Muggeridge. “The coming of Jesus into the world is the most stupendous event in human history. . . . As it is, belonging to a civilization which began with the birth of Jesus some two thousand years ago, and reaching the conclusion—to me inescapable—that whatever is truly admirable in the achievements of the succeeding… Read More Fiat Lux. Into History Comes the Light
In her biography of G.K. Chesterton published in 1943, Maisie Ward tells of this remarkable trait of the great convert and Catholic apologist: “(He) liked everybody very much, and everything very much. He liked even the things most of us dislike. He liked to get wet. He liked to be tired. After…[a particular period of]… Read More G. K. Chesterton and The Eternal Thank You
[Photo: Religious Art in Film. Franco Zefferilli’s Jesus of Nazareth.] The Easter cards we see in ordinary stores give little hint of the shock of the disciples at seeing the empty tomb and beholding the risen Christ. And certainly not of the terrible trauma and ignominy which Our Lord had just gone through: the betrayal,… Read More Christ’s Victory Over Death and Postmodern Despair
“When The Waste Land was published in 1922, T.S. Eliot changed the course of literary history. Hailed as the most influential English-language poem of the twentieth century, this masterpiece of modernist poetry was born not only from a shattered world—but from Eliot’s own psychological collapse. In this in-depth lecture, we explore the rich historical, philosophical,… Read More April is the Cruelest Month
Matt. 18: 15-17 If Your Brother Sins Against You 15 “ … go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence… Read More When We See Another Person Sinning
NCReporter. 4/7/26 Catholics across the ideological spectrum, including Pope Leo XIV, expressed alarm and condemned President Donald Trump’s threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” unless Iran strikes a deal with the United States by 8 p.m. Eastern on April 7. Leo XIV called the threats “truly unacceptable” and said that such attacks would violate… Read More Pope Leo XIV calls Trump’s threat to end Iran ‘truly unacceptable’
It was a dream. Needless to say, it was not a vision. If I ever had a vision I would likely run for the psychiatric couch, not to a pope. I cannot remember whether it was a day or a night dream. The city hung heavy over us all. I was lifting a lantern before… Read More The City and the Cross
Paul McCartney after approximately 1966 surged to become the band’s most melodic songwriter. This cover constructed by the Ethan Gontar channel, A.I. > two young Irish ladies, I think does justice to both the song and its original singer / songwriter. [See also the link to the Tony Bennett and Diana Krall collaboration below.] McCartney… Read More Days We Left Behind
If I were in our son’s condition, paralyzed since 2006 and subject to recurring pneumonias and even more grave infections and invasive procedures, I have often thought how depressed I would be. As anyone who knows him would tell you, the light in Jeremy’s eyes, seen here below, may be a little brighter than usual,… Read More Jeremy and Massachusetts
The objective of the modernist has always been to force ‘God’ into a relative obscurity in order to make more room for the autonomy of man. In order to do so it is necessary for the modernist to utterly reject the traditional understanding of the Incarnation, whereby God consummated His love and revelation of Himself… Read More The “Specious Pretext”. Modernism.
Modern or post-modern man (i.e., the human person, m/f) is characterized by an attachment to ambiguity and relativity. Truth, the very notion of it, is suspect in our time. As a human being, I am obliged to truly encounter my world, my times. It has engaged me. Nearly 73 years old, I have tried to… Read More The Light and Life of Being
By Colleen Barry and Trisha Thomas, AP Friday, April 3, 2026 8:43PM Pope Leo XIV carried a wooden cross for all of the 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff, marking the first time in decades that a pope carried the cross to every… Read More Pope Leo XIV carries Good Friday cross; the first pontiff to do so in decades
“…the rejection of the transcendent, [is] a one-way street to Dachau”. Samuel T. Francis+ wrote, “… [M]odernism denies or ignores God and concentrates on secular knowledge and action. Human knowledge then can be only empirical; moral statements can be only relative or factual, there being a dichotomy between fact and value; and human action cannot… Read More Modernism & ‘Science’s’ One-way Street.
Unlike so many today, Archbishop Fulton Sheen was biblically-centered. He explicitly rejected Modernistic reinterpretations of Sacred Scripture(1). Here for 4 1/2 continuous hours Bishop Sheen expounds with great erudition on Christ’s Passion and death and beyond, What God has done for us…This is an incomparable Sheen gift for Holy Week —and beyond. Get Sign of… Read More Fulton J Sheen. Holy Week. Sign of Contradiction: Good Friday and Beyond
Love, Christians have always known, believes in both good fences as well as shared pastures. We do this by, as St. Thomas defined love, “willing the good of the other”. Peoples who do not think alike and who would not likely live well together can still share much to the benefit of all, the entire… Read More Good Fences, Shared Bounty
By Pieter Vree, Editor New Oxford Review Is he serious? On the return flight from his visit to Lebanon late last year, Pope Leo XIV said the West should be “a little less fearful” of Islam (Dec. 2). This “fear,” he said, is “often generated by people who are against immigration and trying to keep… Read More Suicidal Empathy, European Style
I don’t mean to rain on Patrick Madrid’s (or anyone’s) parade. But consider. He writes in bold letters on ‘X’ that The Beatles are the “Greatest Band in History. Don’t Trust Anyone Who Doesn’t Like The Beatles!“. But the Beatles cast both genius and deepest shade. I’m in my 7th decade of life. I’ve loved… Read More The Beatles and Where We Are.
Updated. DN: “As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter Sunday, we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac, pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth. This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop… Read More “Two Versions of Christianity”: Pope Leo Calls for Peace as U.S. “Uses Religion to Justify Iran War”.
… “to safely monitor people’s health records, keeping tabs on farmers, and tackling “climate problems.” See Gates speaking on this here.
Franco Zeffirelli’s 1990 adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy about the young prince of Denmark who is plagued by indecision when he vows to avenge his father’s murder. Filmed on location around the UK, including Stonehaven in Scotland, the film boasts an impressive ensemble cast. “Casting Mel Gibson was a choice, but a clever one. Zeffirelli aimed… Read More It is Always a Propitious Time to Revisit Franco Zeffirelli’s Hamlet
Hans Urs von Balthasar Symphony means “sounding together”. First there is sound, then different sounds and then we hear the different sounds singing together in a dance of sound. A bass trumpet is not the same as a piccolo; a cello is not a bassoon. The difference between the instruments must be as striking as… Read More Truth Is Symphonic: Aspects of Christian Pluralism
By Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. | ” … dictators are not the creators of the world’s evil; they are its creatures; they are only boils on the surface of the world’s skin; they come to the surface because there is bad blood beneath. It will do no good to puncture the boils, if we leave… Read More The Wars and the Revolution
“We live in the time of no room, which is the time of the end. The time when everyone is obsessed with lack of time, lack of space, with saving time, conquering space, projecting into time and space the anguish produced within them by the technological furies of size, volume, quantity, speed, number, price, power… Read More Thomas Merton on the Apocalypse, the Inn With No Room
National Catholic Register. The Irish-born priest is revered for his revolutionary approach to caring for impoverished boys at the group home he founded in Omaha, Nebraska. By Hannah Brockhaus / EWTN News 23, 2026 Pope Leo XIV on Monday approved the advancement of the beatification cause for Boys Town founder Father Edward J. Flanagan, declaring… Read More Boys Town Founder Father Flanagan Moves One Step Closer to Sainthood
“With the Archbishop of Canterbury now confirmed as a woman, we’re seeing a pattern in which the essential nodes of the British Tradition are being destroyed. We’re now at peak modernity, with the spiritual order totally flipped on its head. Is this the end? In a political and cultural sense, maybe, yet we’re seeing the… Read More Are Britain and Western Civilization Being Systematically Destroyed?
+ Kissinger’s final warning and the Antichristic: “Prepare now for ‘superhuman’ people to control Earth…Kissinger’s co-authors, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and longtime Microsoft senior executive Craig Mundie’s bracing message, warning that AI tools have already started outpacing human capabilities so people might need to consider biologically engineering themselves to ensure they are not rendered… Read More Closer to Midnight? The Signs and Wonders of Elon Musk.
“Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies?” — William Shakespeare
— from retrospect journal.com. Campbell was the ‘Downing Street Director of Communications and Strategy’, an office which was invented for him specifically. He was in charge of everything to come out of Blair’s Number 10, as well as directing the campaigns which won Blair two of the largest majorities in British Parliamentary history. Campbell had… Read More King of Spin Again. Alastair Campbell’s New Self.
Tucker Carlson liked Moscow’s clean streets and low crime rate. But he did not confront Putin’s abuses of power as alleged by Western powers. “Vladimir Putin is a thug and a murderer and a killer and a KGB agent,” Senator John McCain said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Dec. 11, 2016. Putin, who has… Read More A Short List of the Alleged Crimes of Vladimir Putin
Excerpt from Jean Paul Sartre. Freedom and the Disclosure of Being. “It is through my horror that I am carried toward the future and, insofar as it constitutes the future as possible, my horror nihilates itself. It is precisely the consciousness of being one’s own future, in the mode of not-being, that we call anguish.… Read More Sartre and the Fears of Contingency
Digital ID Cards. The latest desperate proposal from Keir Starmer would fundamentally change the relationship between the individual and the state. It is an attack on our liberties and must be opposed. See & Hear Jacob Rees-Mogg’sWarning Here
National Catholic Reporter. “Presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences to Rome for an October 2026 summit aimed at assessing how the Catholic Church engages with families in a rapidly changing world. Announcing the gathering in a March 19 message marking the 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”), Leo said the meeting would seek “a synodal discernment… Read More Question of Irregular Unions Return Under Leo?
“In the climate of the Second Vatican Council, of ecumenism, of openness, the word “heretic” has become not only unpopular but unspeakable—except, of course, among integralists, who often construct their own identity on accusations of heresy directed at others. But has the concept of heresy become completely irrelevant? Has our awareness of the duty of… Read More Thomas Merton on Heresy and Self-Contradiction
And education. American v. Catholic Christic Liberty. “… Barron, who serves as a commissioner on the religious liberty panel, echoed Cordileone and said Catholics are increasingly being pushed out of health care and social services. “I think they want us out of health care,” he said. “They want us out of education.” The bishop of… Read More “They want us out of healthcare altogether”
“The screen often becomes an addiction. It is not just the Church that makes this declaration, but the behavioral sciences also confirm this. Screens are an escape from reality in the same way alcohol and drugs pretend to offer. While we may want to frame it as a moral issue, this pitfall is so much… Read More SSPX speaks the simple truth here
By Dominic Nicholas | 8 Notes | October 2023 You have likely heard and loved his work even if you knew little or nothing of him or it. Listen again here. Erik Satie (186–1925) wrote his celebrated Trois Gymnopédies in the 1880s whilst living and working in Montmartre, Paris. Unassuming though they may seem, these works were quietly… Read More The Story of Satie’s Gymnopedies
“There is only one recorded time in the life of our blessed Lord that he ever sang. And that is the night he went out to his death.” “You can sell the Blessed Lord. But you can never buy Him”. + Archbishop Sheen on the Last Supper and Agony. + Death March to Jerusalem +… Read More The Supper and the Cross
From war-torn Russia to the quiet strength of family life in America, Aunt Rose’s courage was forged in suffering and sustained by faith and humility. By Richard Lukas | National Catholic Register. I was blessed to have two loving parents who were the nucleus of an extended family that included my brother, sister, aunt, two… Read More An Extraordinary Lady Formed by Faith and Fire
…Permit me to correct my oversight here. James DiEugenio is an American historian and author known for his extensive research on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He has written many books on the topic, including “Destiny Betrayed” and “Reclaiming Parkland,” and has contributed to documentaries about JFK’s assassination. Understanding Special Operations by Prouty… Read More Overlooked. November 22.
Neither Capitalism nor Communism, Envy or Greed. “Itemize the things you covet –As you squander through your life –Bigger cars, bigger houses –Term insurance for your wife –Tuesday evenings with your harlot –And on Wednesdays it’s your charlatan –analyst, he’s high upon your list – You’ve got air conditioned sinuses –And dark disturbing doubts about… Read More Mr. Business Man
On February 26, 1950, a couple of years before I was born, Leonard Bernstein premiered his second symphony, The Age of Anxiety, in New York City. It was based on W. H. Auden’s 1948 Pulitzer Prize winning poem which had used the metaphor to describe the spiritual, psychological, and political milieu after World War II.… Read More The Age of Anxiety
