Our friend Charles Coulombe has written a wonderful book that I am reading right now, Blessed Charles of Austria: A Holy Emperor and His Legacy. Though I am only about half-way through the book, I was so struck with the … Continue reading
Category: History
These Five Priests Gave Their Lives in 1873 in Shreveport LA for Yellow Fever Victims
They chose not to flee but to stay and minister to the dying knowing they would succumb to the epidemic themselves. Crux, John Allen: After Father Peter Mangum anointed a 98-year-old woman who had COVID-19, he couldn’t help but think … Continue reading
The 51 Claretian Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
National Catholic Register, Jim Graves: During the course of the Spanish Civil War, 13 bishops, 4,184 diocesan priests, 2,365 religious priests and brothers, 283 nuns and 249 seminarians were assassinated for their religion, almost all of them by the Communists. … Continue reading
Interview With Blessed Emperor Karl’s Great-Grandson on the Blessed’s Feastday
His Imperial Royal Highness Imre von Habsburg-Lothringen, archduke of Austria and his American wife Kathleen married before Monsignor Charles Pope in Washington DC. National Catholic Register, K.V. Hurley: Sometimes it is hard to believe that saints were once flesh and blood: … Continue reading
Bishop Honors Florida Martyrs, 1000 Were Apalachee Indians
CNA, Perry West: At a Mass on Monday said in thanksgiving for the cause for canonization of the martyrs of Spanish colonial Florida, the Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee emphasized that martyrs were not just in the Old World, but in what … Continue reading
Leo XIII’s Great Encyclical on Columbus
The American Catholic, Donald R. McClarey: Another Columbus Day is upon us, and I always observe it with a post on the discoverer of the new world. The official observance this year in the US is on October 12 the … Continue reading
The New Barbarism
When I was a young man I imagined that the end of a civilization would be dramatic. It turns out to be a lot less than that. The defense of an ancient city finally collapsing after a long siege and … Continue reading
Steve Cunningham and Brother André Marie Discuss ‘Americanism’
The YouTube video below represents a first. It is the first time that there has been a combination “Resistance Podcast” and “Reconquest” in one offering. (The complementarity of both defensive and offensive warcraft was not lost on us!) Steve Cunningham, … Continue reading
King Saint Louis IX: The Champion of the Kingship of Christ
Crisis Magazine, Sean Fitzpatrick: “I love you, my dear son,” Queen Blanche of Castile said to her fourth-eldest child, Louis. “But I would rather see you dead at my feet than that you should ever commit a mortal sin.” Louis, who … Continue reading
The Christians Are Right and the Pagans Are Wrong
Crisis, Charles Coulombe: Attacks on statues and monuments around the developed world have grown ever stronger since my last posting, with ever increasing incoherence—and irrelevance—as far as a certain death in Minneapolis goes. The latest to catch my attention was … Continue reading
Who Am I?
I am from a family of saints. My grandmother and parents were all saints. We were from what is now central Turkey, a thriving Christian area in the later fourth century, before the Moslem conquest. My grandmother, who has the … Continue reading
Which President Was Sworn In On a Catholic Missal Instead of a Bible?
Surprise answer is here. + U Catholic: When George Washington took office as the first President of the United States on April 30th in 1789, he swore his constitutional oath on a Bible. Since setting the precedent, nearly all presidents … Continue reading
Catholic Convert Who ‘Survived’ Bombing of Nagasaki
Aleteia, Michael Cook: These were experiences which would have crushed the strongest among us and made the most fervent question the justice of God. Nagai pondered the disaster. Was it completely senseless? Had it exposed the indifference of God? As … Continue reading
The Religion of America IV: Can These Bones Live?
The events that have transpired since our last instalment have cast everything said thus far into exceedingly and uncomfortably stark relief. Across the United States, cities have burned, shops been looted, and the statues not merely of Confederate stalwarts but … Continue reading
How One Journalist for NYT Whitewashed Stalin and Won FDR to Recognize Him
This is a man [Walter Duranty] whom Malcolm Muggeridge, the Manchester Guardian correspondent and Duranty’s contemporary, described as “the greatest liar of any journalist I have met in fifty years of journalism.” The American Conservative, Rod Dreher: If you haven’t … Continue reading