Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can. (Saint Bonaventure, +1274)... Read more.
Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven. (Saint Camillus de Lellis, +1614)... Read more.
After the most blessed servant of God had been anointed king, he was not satisfied with the anxieties of his realm; so, in order to attain the crown of immortality,... Read more.
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading (Saint Benedict,... Read more.
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature, which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage,... Read more.
Arguing A Council and Archbishop Vigano
(This article was first published on June 26th, on LifeSite, but is still relevant, given the recent interview with Archbishop Vigano and Phil Lawler, which further... Read more.
His Yoke is Easy
From today’s Gospel, His yoke is easy, from Handel’s Messiah: https://youtu.be/Js9QOsRL62M... Read more.
To live without faith, without a heritage to defend, without battling constantly for truth, is not to live but to ‘get along’; we must never just ‘get along’... Read more.
Faith is an act of the intellect, assenting to the divine truth, by command of the will, moved by God, through grace (Saint Thomas Aquinas)... Read more.
Laugh and grow strong (Saint Ignatius of Loyola)... Read more.