The word “pilgrim,” derived from the Latin peregrinum, conveys the idea of wandering over a distance, but it is not just aimless wandering. It is a journey with a purpose, and that purpose is to honor God. Pilgrimage has a … Continue reading
Category: History
King Arthur’s Round Table Found?
According to the UK’s Telegraph,”Researchers exploring the legend of Britain’s most famous Knight believe his stronghold of Camelot was built on the site of a recently discovered Roman amphitheatre in Chester.” If the researchers are correct in their conclusions, the … Continue reading
The Battleground: Syria and Palestine, the Seed Plot of Religion by Hilaire Belloc
[The Battleground: Syria and Palestine, the Seed Plot of Religion by Hilaire Belloc. Ignatius Press.] Hilaire Belloc, one of my favorite authors, was exceedingly prolific. He wrote one hundred fifty three books of poetry, essays, history, religion, politics, and economics, … Continue reading
Pope Innocent III and the Marks of a Great Papacy
Because Innocent III was one of the three popes to define the doctrine of “no salvation outside the Church,” it would do well for all the friends of Saint Benedict Center to study the pontificate of this man whose papacy … Continue reading
The Leonine Prayers and the Conversion of Russia
In reading this morning about the street fighting going on in Kingston, Jamaica, where battles between the police and drug dealers has left twenty-six civilians dead, plus thirty more between the gang members and police (if I am reading the … Continue reading
‘God Bless and Keep the Tsar…’
Play-goers or movie-buffs might recall the end of this “prayer for the Tsar” offered impromptu by the Rabbi near the beginning of “Fiddler on the Roof”: “…far away from us!” The line reflects a popular anti-monarchist sentiment that scorns all … Continue reading
Dios, Patria, Fueros, y Rey: The Story Of The Spanish Carlistas
In his article “Spain’s Crusade” of some years ago, Gary Potter briefly mentioned the Carlists “…without whose arms and sacrifices victory could well have eluded the Catholic, national side of the conflict. It would be desirable to speak of them … Continue reading
The Carlists in America
We are soon to publish an article on the Carlists of Spain. The video below provides a “warm up” for that later piece, and from an interesting point of view, as it concerns Carlist assistance to the Confederacy. What interests … Continue reading
Team of Chinese and Turks Find and Explore Noe’s Ark
Although for about two thousand years inhabitants in the region affirmed that there was a huge boat on top of Mount Ararat, and pictures were taken through the ice glacier by explorers many times in the last century, this is … Continue reading
Spanish Crusade 1936-1939
At a time when Spain is afflicted by an anti-Christian socialist government, and even its nominally Catholic King disgraces his crown by signing pro-abortion legislation into law, it’s edifying to reflect on the Carlistas and other heroes of the Faith … Continue reading
Yet Another Defense of Pius XII
When the enemies of the Church, the enemies of Christianity in general, and those who want to “hold” the Catholic hierarchy’s “feet to the fire” constantly jabber about Pius XII’s supposed complicity in the Nazi murder of Jews, it becomes … Continue reading
A Brief History of Saint Benedict Center
We will tell the history of the Center in a question-and-answer format. How did Saint Benedict Center begin? In 1940, a prominent Catholic laywoman, Catherine Goddard Clarke, sought permission of the then Archbishop of Boston, William Cardinal O’Connell, to establish … Continue reading
Father Paul of Graymoor: Founder of the Society of the Atonement and Father of the Church Unity Octave
Every Catholic of a certain age remembers the week in January when the Church Unity Octave or the Chair of Unity Octave was celebrated liturgically. The Octave began on January 18, Feast of St. Peter’s Chair in Rome, and ended … Continue reading
Defending Christendom’s Gates
(Book Review: Islam at the Gates: How Christendom Defeated the Ottoman Turks by Dr. Diane Moczar; Sophia Press.) It is my habit when I sit down to read a book, with the intention of reviewing it, to take pen in … Continue reading
The Thirteenth The Greatest of Centuries
“It had great thinkers, great rulers, great teachers, great poets, great artists, great moralists and great workmen. It could not be called the material age in any special degree. It was equally poetic, political, industrial, artistic, practical, intellectual, and devotional. … Continue reading
