Brian Boru, Charles and James
On this day in 1014, at the Battle of Clontarf, just outside Dublin, the great high king of Ireland, Brian Boru, died in battle against the Vikings – a Good... Read more.
Mr. Weigel’s Inconsistent Proportionalism
George Weigel just posted an impassioned condemnation of the moral error of proportionalism – that the overall good of any moral decision is the final determinant... Read more.
Venantius’ Vexilla Regis Prodeunt
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus was a self-described wandering minstrel in Europe of the very early Middle Ages, or late Antiquity, or the inaptly-described... Read more.
The Salvific Power of Beauty
Dostoyevsky wrote, through the voice of Prince Myskin in his novel, The Idiot, that ‘beauty would save the world’. I have often wondered about that quotation,... Read more.
A Mass Schedule in Time Capsule: What Happened?
For these latter days of Lent, I just began reading Father Romano Guardini’s Jesus Christus – his 1963 meditation on the life of the Saviour, and a recommended... Read more.
Mary’s Fiat
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation, to all our readers! This feast commemorates the conception of the Son of God in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, freely chosen... Read more.
Dumbed Down and Drugged Up
Intelligence is a difficult thing to define, never mind measure. But we can gain some idea of what ‘intelligence’ implies – knowledge of fundamental... Read more.
Dwindling – or is That Dawning – Hope?
George Weigel has always been rather sanguine about the ecclesia moderna. The author of the tome-like biography of John Paul II, Witness to Hope, has turned more... Read more.
15 Minute Cities – Utopian Villages, or Dystopic Hells?
There’s much ado of late on ‘15 minute cities‘, (FMCs – like everything else now, they have their own acronym) a proposed redesigning of... Read more.
Cheating Chat-GPT
In 1950, Alan Turing – one of the inventors of the modern computer, and fresh from helping win the war by designing it to decipher Germany’s indecipherable... Read more.