The brief narration below and the embedded YouTube video are courtesy of the folks at The One Ring, where you can go for further discussion about the poem. This poem, titled “Noel”, was written by J.R.R. Tolkien before The Hobbit … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Saint Thorlak, the Patron of Iceland
Today is the feast of Saint Thorlak Thorhallsson (Þorlákur Þórhallsson in Icelandic), the national patron of Iceland. This I know thanks to a lovely tribute to him on the CNA site, an AI summary of which is below.1 Sadly, there … Continue reading
Ten ‘Charitable Takedowns’ by Joshua Charles, and Rachmaninoff
In preparing myself to interview Joshua Charles, of Eternal Christendom, I have been reading and listening to some of his work. This included a lengthy scroll through his X feed. In the process, I came up with ten “charitable takedowns” … Continue reading
The Sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne Canonized
The Holy See Press Office published this notice yesterday concerning the canonization of the Sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne, brutally murdered during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror: During the audience granted to His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of … Continue reading
Col. Douglas Macgregor on Syria: ‘Christians Have Already Been Decapitated’
Yesterday, Judge Andrew Napolitano interviewed Col. Douglas Macgregor for his “Judging Freedom” podcast on YouTube. In the interview, entitled “America’s Next War of Choice” — which concerned mostly American posturing with Iran as well as President-Elect Trump striving to end … Continue reading
Mr. Trump Is Not Pro-Life: He Commits to Keeping Abortion Pill Available
We Americans have a bad habit of sticking white hats and black hats on our politicians. If one guy is evil, the other guy must be good. Such binaries do not reflect reality. Look only at one issue: abortion. The … Continue reading
Joseph Haydn’s Die Schöpfung (Creation Oratorio): Setting Divine Truth to Musical Beauty
Yesterday, I recorded the next episode of Reconquest: The Beauty of Revelation in Haydn’s Creation Oratorio. My guest is a young lady named Hannah Houston, whom two of our Sisters met at a Kolbe Center event this summer, where she … Continue reading
The History of the USS Liberty as Told to Candace Owens by Survivor Phil Tourney
Candace Owens has interviewed USS Liberty survivor Phil Tourney. The interview, embedded below, has generated a lot of interest. As of my viewing, it had been seen 3,354,979 times on YouTube. May it get many more views. What is the … Continue reading
James Corbett: A Brief History of the War on Syria
(James Corbett/Corbettreport.com) — The foreign-backed terrorist insurgency in Syria has finally accomplished the globalists’ objective: regime change in Syria. But how did we get here? Who was behind this decades-long plan for reshaping the Middle East? And what does it … Continue reading
Col. Macgregor: US, Israel, and Turkey are fueling elimination of Christianity in the Middle East
Retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor has warned that Christianity faces extinction in the Middle East owing to Zionist expansion plans, supported in large part by the American Deep State. (Frank Wright/LifeSiteNews) — In a startling appraisal of the regime change operation … Continue reading
Don’t rush to claim Syria’s Christians are safe – we’re dealing with Islamists in a volatile situation
At the Catholic Herald, Georgia Gilholy has published a very good article on the uncertain situation of Syrian Christians given the new status quo that is post-Assad Syria. Please do not be quick to believe what any of the mainstream … Continue reading
From A Syrian Christian Friend, on Current Events
The following is published as a complement to Joe Doyle’s fine piece, Biden Celebrates Fall of Syria, But Christians Face Peril. Over the weekend, I emailed a Syrian lady I know to assure her that her family back in Syria … Continue reading
Biden Celebrates Fall of Syria, But Christians Face Peril
The following news analysis was produced by the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts… Lame duck, neo-liberal U.S. President Joe Biden is celebrating the collapse of the regime of Bashar Al Assad, the former President of the Syrian Arab Republic. Assad … Continue reading
Beautiful Advent Hymn by Saint Ambrose, ‘Veni Redemptor Gentium,’ and Its Musical Offspring
Saint Ambrose of Milan, whose feast is today, wrote some very fine hymns. So fine were they that, though few, they earned for him the title, “Father of Latin Hymnody.” One of those magnificent works, it turns out, is an … Continue reading
President of the Balearic Islands Meets with Pope Francis, Discusses Canonization of Blessed Raymond Lull
Marga Prohens, the President of the Balearic Islands, met with Pope Francis yesterday at the Vatican and asked him to visit the island of Mallorca to venerate the Jesuit lay brother to whom he is devoted, Saint Alonso (or Alphonsus) … Continue reading
