That wine may cheer the heart of man* The good God made the vine. Creation’s third day of the six, He did this thing divine. He lavished on it sun and rain, And placed it in rich soil; And when … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Plucking of His Beard
I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me. (Isaias 50:6) In His Agony in the Garden … Continue reading
Even Obama’s DOJ Reprimanded the SPLC!
Dale Wilcox, writing for Breitbart News: Last week, my organization, an immigration-control advocate, publicly released a 2016 disciplinary opinion from the Obama-era U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officially reprimanding a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) attorney for unprofessional and frivolous … Continue reading
Tell Me What You Want to Hear on My Radio Show
Though I’m taking a break from it to write this short note, I am currently making preparations to interview my friend Charles Coulombe for a Reconquest episode on the subject of Monarchy. The show will be “Episode 76: Why Monarchy? … Continue reading
How ‘Father Hurricane’ Could Have Prevented the Terrible Loss of Life in the Hurricane of 1900
Anyone who has lived in the Gulf South knows to become wary as the end of June approaches. That is when the tropical “waves” coming into the Atlantic off the western coast of Africa begin. In fact, June 30 is … Continue reading
Low Sunday, a Liturgical Day of Many Names
The Sunday that began this week is called Low Sunday. It is also called Quasi Modo Sunday, after the Latin words of the Introit, and yes, this is the same as the given name of the “Hunchback of Notre Dame,” who … Continue reading
Catholics Should Care about Politics and Society
There are two books that I am aware share the high distinction of being advertised by Saint Therese of Lisieux. They are Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year, which has been cited numerous times on this site by different authors, and Father Charles Arminjon’s … Continue reading
The Suffering of Jesus in Caiphas’ Dungeon
They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death (Psalm 87:7). After Our Lord endured the mock trial under Caiphas, and before being led in chains to Pilate, He was held … Continue reading
Interview with Marco Tosatti on the Syrian Crisis
Marco Tosatti is an Italian journalist and author who, next to writing for the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, and for the Italian website, La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, has his own website on which he publishes important articles about the Catholic … Continue reading
The Vocation of the Prophet
This is a lighthearted imitation of the more serious poem by the South African Catholic poet, Roy Campbell, “The Making of a Poet.” There is something virile and muscular in Campbell’s poetry that makes it very attractive (which was not … Continue reading
Cardinal Burke Interviewed on Hot-Button Issues: SSPX, Malta, Dubia, Modernist Statements of Jesuit Superior General, etc.
Many thanks are due to our dear friend, Dr. Maike Hickson, for bringing this interview of Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke to our attention. You can read Maike’s fine summary at OnePeterFive.com. The interview is in four parts, all four of which … Continue reading
Syria, Trump, and the War Party
Some uncommonly common sense from Patrick J. Buchanan: By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our “America First” president may have plunged us into another Middle East war that his countrymen do not want to fight. … Continue reading
May Jesus Put Us Into the Pond and Heal Us of Our Sins
In Saint John’s Gospel there is an account particular to this Gospel of the healing of a paralytic by the Pond (or Pool) called Probatica. The poor man had lain there on his pallet for thirty-eight years hoping for a … Continue reading
RIP John Vennari
From the Fatima Network: JOSEPH JOHN VENNARI, R.I.P. (February 24, 1958 – April 4, 2017) Dear Friends, Joseph John Vennari died on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 10:46 a.m. E.S.T. It is not only Passion Tuesday, but the 98th anniversary … Continue reading
The ‘Dilemma’ of Saint Joseph
Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and … Continue reading
