One of the most justly celebrated works of Catholic history written in the last one hundred years was The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries, by James J. Walsh. Figured as the apogee of the Age of Faith, the thirteenth probably has … Continue reading
Category: Politics and Society
Give the Gift that Keeps Killing
The marketing department at Planned Parenthood has become positively tasteless. Abortion, the killing of an unborn human, has been made the subject of a gift certificate at Christmas time. “What do you get for the girl who has everything — … Continue reading
Louisiana: Joe Cao, a Catholic, is First Vietnamese-American elected to Congress
The Jesuit-educated refugee from communism is perceived as a moderate republican. But he has something wonderfully immoderate to say on the life issue: Aside from one major issue, Republican moderate Joe Cao says he’s open on everything else. “The only … Continue reading
Spain’s Crusade, 1936-39
When news media late last winter reported that a plaque was to be placed in the New Hampshire capitol building to honor natives of the state who served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, … Continue reading
Louis IX: King, Crusader, and Saint
François Marie Arouet, known to literature and history as Voltaire, a name he assumed while serving time in prison, was an enemy of the Faith who did much to generate the intellectual atmosphere in which the French Revolution, once it … Continue reading
Our Lady of America and the Obama Nation
Brian Kelly has written on this site about Our Lady of America and her apparitions to the holy religious in Ohio, Sister Mary Ephrem (Mildred Neuzil). These apparitions are approved by the Church, as the recent canonical study of the … Continue reading
Saint Olaf and the End of the Viking World
One thousand years ago, an entire world was coming to an end. It was the world of the pagan Vikings. It would be replaced by another: that of Christian Scandinavia. The vanished world and the one that replaced it are … Continue reading
Another Medical Victory Using Adult Stem Cells
Some weeks ago I read an article about a doctor who moved from England to Australia because he ran into so many obstacles in promoting the proven efficacy of adult stem cells compared to the use of embryonic cells. Pro-abortions … Continue reading
Abortion Opposed From Heaven
When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appeared on Meet the Press a few weeks ago, she was asked about her consistent approval of abortion. Repeating her frequently stated stand, she insisted that she is “an ardent, practicing Catholic” and … Continue reading
Québec and French America: What Might Have Been
In a country like the United States, which has never been Catholic – nor in which has the undiluted Faith taken root deeply enough to shape to any extent the life of society – those who still cling to the … Continue reading
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: A Tribute
When the enemies of Christian social order attack one of its champions, they are never satisfied simply to say he is wrong. They also invariably seek to discredit the man as a man by casting doubt on his integrity or … Continue reading
Chivalry and Our Lady
This article was serialized over two issues of our magazine, From the Housetops. Here, we present parts I and II together. —Editor Chivalry, it is said, is dead. Inasmuch as it was already being said before the rise of modern … Continue reading