The following is the speech I gave at IHM School’s graduation yesterday. Readers should know that our school in rural southern New Hampshire is very small. We had one graduates this year (we had three last year!). HERE we are once more in the month of … Continue reading
Memorial Day begins the American civil Summer; the Fourth of July marks its apex, and it ends on Labour Day (of course, the first Halloween decorations shall have started to appear in the stores the last week in July). Enjoyable … Continue reading
“One man’s trespass led to condemnation for all men” (Rom. 5:18). With these somber words, St. Paul expressed one of the truths that govern human history. On account of what St. John Henry Newman called the “aboriginal catastrophe”—namely, the Fall … Continue reading
The Kingdom of Speech lives up to its blurb summary as “an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech — not evolution — is responsible for humanity’s complex societies and achievements.” Continue reading
This past weekend, I was a presenter at the third annual “Crusader Knights Congress” put on by Mike Church and sponsored by the Crusade Channel and LifeSite. Here is the text of that talk. * * * * * * … Continue reading
The purpose of this article is not to show that Carmelite saints believed in the dogma outside the Church there is no salvation in the same sense that Father Leonard Feeney believed it. That would be too easy, and this … Continue reading
What follows is a special report from the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts… Witches Night in New England—On the weekend of April 28th to April 30th, The Satanic Temple—one of the two principal manifestations of organized Satanism in the United States today—will hold … Continue reading
It is no secret that the Iberian Peninsula has, within its borders, played host to many of the most dramatic martial and moral clashes in the entirety of Western history. One can find no less than three major wars fought … Continue reading
As Easter fast recedes, one cannot help but think — after one has attained a certain age — of Holy Weeks and Easters past. Of course, Christmas famously attracts such thoughts; but I suppose that every major holy day does … Continue reading
Lent can be a beautiful season, a time of new growth. Each year I gain something different; this year, I am growing in love for the saints who are remembered at least in part for their actions on the day … Continue reading
The world we live in now is so full of division; we see this most painfully in former Christendom (Western and Eastern), with so many different denominations of Christianity, especially with the continuing divorce of the Eastern Orthodox with the … Continue reading
All men, at some point in their lives, become teachers in some capacity or another. As a result, being a professional teacher can swiftly lose its meaning to the likes of students, as well as even parents and other administrators. … Continue reading
This Lent finds me in rather a saddened frame of mind — perhaps appropriate to the season. Bishop David O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop of my home diocese, Los Angeles, has just been shot dead. Two online friends whom I have … Continue reading
Dear Reader, have you ever been to an amusement park and wandered into a house of mirrors? The various formations of the mirrors produce entertaining reflections, such as a very tall and unusually skinny “you”, or a squat and fat … Continue reading
It is becoming increasingly common — to my great dismay — to find one of two scenarios in both Catholic and Public schools in the United States when it comes to its exploration of great literature. The first is that … Continue reading
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