If Brother Andé Marie’s posting on Father Emil Kapaun interested you, you may care to learn something about another American Catholic military chaplain that received the Medal of Honor. He is the Bavarian-born Benedictine from Saint Vincent’s Archabbey in Latrobe, … Continue reading
This would seem to be a first: an American army chaplain, whose cause for canonization has been introduced in Rome, is also being considered for the Medal of Honor. From the site promoting his cause: Father Kapaun, was born in … Continue reading
I wish I could locate the old book (one of those thick hardbound histories of Catholic heroes) in which I read about the event. It was on one of his later voyages to the New World. While sailing along the … Continue reading
The Remnant has reprinted a beautiful letter by the French champion of Catholic Action, Jean Ousset: To Fly from the Cross. It is a remedy to the disease of sedevacantism, as well as to any of the other forms of … Continue reading
Over at Chronicles, Dr. Thomas Fleming has a concise piece of writing that covers lots of ground on how pagans, old and new, consider the virtue of humility. He contends that the best of the Greeks and Romans had an … Continue reading
In a manner of speaking, yes. American Life League’s Katie Walker explains: A British researcher has added to the growing body of evidence showing the link between the birth control pill and the rise of the effeminate heartthrob. Dr Alexandra … Continue reading
How it happened, I can only guess. I assume that some folks in Málaga, Spain follow traditionalist events here in the United States, and all over the world (judging from the pictures) via the Internet. Some photos of Brother Francis’ … Continue reading
Tom Piatak, writing for Taki Magazine online, comments here on the great naval victory of the Christians over the Mohammedan invaders in the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571. He also provides a link to the magnificent poem, Lepanto, … Continue reading
If you are a resident of the great Granite State like we are, you may be interested in the Una Voce New Hampshire. You can find all the locations for the Classical Roman Liturgy throughout the Diocese of Manchester (which … Continue reading
Here is the complete schedule for our Saint Benedict Center Conference on October 30-31 (Friday and Saturday): Friday 11:30 am Registration Opens 12:00 pm Angelus and Brother André Marie’s Opening Remarks 12:30 Sister Marie Thérèse, M.I.C.M. 2:15 Brian Kelly 4:00 … Continue reading
My heart hath uttered a good word, I speak my works to the king; My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly. (Ps. 44:2 Introit of Our Lady’s Mass for Saturday). But he that doth truth, cometh … Continue reading
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of the greatest poets to grace the sunrise of American literature in the mid-nineteenth century, had more than a passing interest in Catholic themes. Study travels to the European countrysides, which were granted him by Maine’s Bowdoin College, … Continue reading
What do the “shores of Gitche Gumee by the shining Big-Sea-Water” have in common with the “Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie”? The Protestant American author of Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha is not generally associated with the … Continue reading
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Clyde N. Wilson has an incisive piece over at Chronicles, on the Wilson-Obama debacle. The following paragraph, near the end, says a lot about the status of public “debate” in the fine Res Publica in which we find ourselves: What … Continue reading
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