Musings on the March
The March for Life was in many ways, as always, a rousing success – thousands of zealous pro-lifers of all ages and all walks of life coming together to witness... Read more.
The Place and Purpose of Private Revelation
On this memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, it is perhaps requisite to say a few words about revelation – A reader wrote recently that Catholics spend too much... Read more.
Did de Niro Really Just Become a ‘Dad’?
Actor Robert de Niro, a septuagenarian on the cusp of octogenarianhood (he turns 80 in August) has just fathered a child. We may use that term advisedly, for ‘fathering’... Read more.
Society, Integrating, Disintegrating, Now and Hereafter
Our society is fragmenting, a tragic process accelerated of late, and it is incumbent on us to maintain some level of social cohesion, to reflect on what it means... Read more.
The Human Spirit Vincit Omnia
On this day, May 8, in 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler stood on the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, at 29,031.7 feet. To get any higher, you’d... Read more.
The Barrier of Bannister’s Mile
On May 6th, 1954, on a make-do track field in Oxford, in windy and blustery conditions, medical student Roger Bannister broke what some thought was the unbreakable... Read more.
The Mauling of Dahl
Roald Dahl (+1990) is being mauled, along with Dr. Seuss (+1991), and, as the Cat in the Hat might declare, we should be appalled, galled, palled, if not stonewalled.... Read more.
Marriage, Divorce and Seeking Happiness
The old joke has it that Milton wrote Paradise Lost after he got married; and when his wife died, he penned the sequel, Paradise Found. In joco veritas. The joke... Read more.
Pretense at Saint John Lateran
Pretense: A false appearance or action intended to deceive. A professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext. Something imagined or pretended. (https://www.wordnik.com/words/pretense)... Read more.
Saint George, Shakespeare and the Millennium
Today is a national holiday in England – as they commemorate the semi-legendary Saint George, martyr for the Faith, slayer of the dragon and rescuer of princesses.... Read more.