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Why, one wonders, should one of the most famous people in history be featured as one of the unsung heroes of Christendom? This would seem to be a good question until we realize that most people do not perceive Shakespeare as a hero of Christendom. He is sung, to be sure. He is sung more … Read moreThe Unsung Shakespeare
As Cardinal Richelieu lay dying, having successfully served as chief architect and advisor to the French monarchy, he was asked if he had forgiven his enemies, of which there were a great many scattered across France and the face of Europe. “There are none left,” he replied, suggesting that he’d either killed or simply outlasted … Read moreRemembering the Dead
Thomas Edward Lawrence, the Oxford archeologist who became the famous “Lawrence of Arabia,” wrote a narrative of his adventures participating in the Arab revolt against the Turks during World War I. At an important point in the Arab revolt, Lawrence was given the opportunity to be of great influence in the war. He was as … Read moreIs the Conflict in the Middle East an Absolute War?
One of the great gifts of the Trump Era is that we have come to know the institutions we grew up trusting are corrupt. FBI, corrupt. CIA, corrupt. Judiciary, corrupt. Not that we grew up knowing the NIH or the CDC, but we know now they are corrupt, too. We knew the media and the … Read moreWill Trump Save Us From Big Food?
In the immediate aftermath of his conversion, following a life not infrequently strewn with sin, Augustine finally decides in what world he wishes to live. But it could not have been an easy choice to make. Born into the late classical world of a pagan empire, a world where he spent his childhood and early … Read moreSt. Augustine’s Destiny
We are on the brink of the 2024 presidential election—which, perhaps more than ever, has us on the brink of preserving this wonderful nation or losing it. Is it true that some Catholics still don’t know for whom they are going to vote, or if they are going to vote? What more do they need … Read moreOn the Brink
Three things that are certain in today’s world: death, taxes…and gaslighting. Our Elites lie to us so much that anyone with commonsense knows to doubt the veracity of anything they claim. The gaslighting reaches into most areas of life: medicine, foreign policy, and the role of women in the Church just to name a few. … Read moreTwo Lies Don’t Equal the Truth
We’ll start with the blasphemy of the year. There’s nothing quite like relaxing at the opera with abundant female nudity, fresh blood, (real) skin piercings, and actual lesbian sex acts. This used to be called porn, and one did not go to the opera for it. Paul Hindemith’s half-hour one-act opera Sancta Susanna (1922), which … Read moreThis Just In: Sacrilege at the Opera and Metaphysical Denial in Politics
Hopefully by now you’ve heard that more than 20,000 Palestinian children are confirmed dead in Israel’s defensive Gaza war. That’s just since October of last year, and it’s just the number of confirmed child deaths in Gaza, excluding civilian women and men. The full number of dead children is surely much higher. Their violent deaths … Read moreThe New Passover of the Judeo-Christian West
Two recurring motifs of the presidential campaign have given it a surreal atmosphere for me: the lying and the assumption that hardly anyone can doubt the social utility of killing babies in the womb. Recently, billionaire Bill Ackman was defending ex-President Trump to a hostile reporter on a news show. The “journalist” disingenuously praised Ackman … Read morePolitics and Truth: America Is at War With Babies