It’s old news to traditional Catholics, but good to see the record posted now on Catholic World Report website. Edward Pentin doesn’t mention the masonic connection however. Though there certainly were many communists who infiltrated the Church in the 50s, … Continue reading
Category: History
Thomas Fleming on Thanksgiving
My notice of it is a week late, but the piece is worth reading nonetheless. Dr. Thomas Fleming, of Chronicles, has a column in the UK Mail Online about the secular American high holy day of Thanksgiving. It’s a wonderful … Continue reading
Valle De Los Caidos: Grand Monument to the Dead
Spain, sad to say, is an enigma for most Americans. A country of heat and passions, of Gypsy music and castanets, and lately of a teetering economy on the verge of collapse, as is much of the rest of Europe, … Continue reading
The Man Who Changed The Face of Europe
[Review of Richelieu, by Hilaire Belloc. Gates of Vienna Books, 2006.] Many years ago when I was in college, my history professors explained two theories of how and why a single man can change the course of history. Was the … Continue reading
Oldest Daughter of the Church, II
[Part I] Given all the years that have passed, and despite all of this history, one might well wonder why we should care about the French Monarchy and its claimants. It has been gone, after all, for a long time. … Continue reading
Saint Teresa and the Calendar
There was no shooting star, but Christendom needed a calendar readjustment the day Saint Teresa of Avila died. Legends and astronomical facts abound about shooting stars accompanying the death or birth of certain great historical personages, or that heralded major … Continue reading
Martyred Dutch Bishop and Eight Companions Honored This Week
UCANews: A series of activities takes place this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the martyrdom of a Dutch bishop and his companions. Bishop Frans Schraven (1873-1937) was among nine Europeans murdered and burnt by Japanese soldiers in Zhengding, … Continue reading
Oldest Daughter of the Church
The American in Paris of Traditionalist bent will, in addition to the usual sights, doubtless seek out the Traditional Mass at such churches as the SSPX’s Saint Nicolas-du-Chardonnet or else Versailles’ Notre Dame des Armees. After Mass, he will then … Continue reading
Can Chivalry Return?
Chivalry! Knighthood! These are words that stir up an enormous number of images in the mind: St. George and the Dragon; the Quest for the Holy Grail; King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table; Charlemagne and his Twelve … Continue reading
Belloc, Chesterton, and the French Revolution
This is an essay written in 1988 for Aportes, the prestigious Historical Journal in Spain. Professor Miguel Ayuso y Torres asked the author to submit an article for an edition dedicated to the French Revolution 200 Years Later. The essay … Continue reading
Garcia Moreno, August 6, 1875+, Greatest Catholic Statesman and Martyr for the Faith
Joseph F.X. Sladky pays honor to Garcia Morena in today’s issue of Crisis Magazine: On 6 August 1875, in the Plaza Major of Quito, Ecuador, a man lay dying. It was the First Friday of the Month. Earlier, after spending … Continue reading
Paying for Past Sins
Most readers of these lines will not have been around when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs first on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and then on Nagasaki three days later. I was myself only a kid, … Continue reading
Precious Blood, Holy Grail
Medieval romances generally fell into four categories: the Matter of Rome, which dealt with such classical heroes as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar; the Matter of France, whose tales were inhabited by Charlemagne and such heroes as his nephew … Continue reading
Father Walter Ciszek, Warrior for Christ in Atheist Russia
“I was born stubborn.” “…I was tough, not in the polite sense of the word, but in the sense our neighbors used to use the word those days in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, when they shook their heads and called me ‘a … Continue reading
Russian Pro-Life Campaigner and Social Expert ‘Amazed’ by West’s Flirt with Socialism
Here’s a clip from Zenit interview with Alexey Komov: In Rome to address a conference to launch the Rome office of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (Institute for Human Dignity) June 29, Komov stressed that socialism has “never worked in world … Continue reading