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How the Carthusians resisted the Reformation
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (58+ words) Victoria Sands, History Today on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 The consequences of Carthusian defiance showed the brutality of the dissolution of the monasteries. Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s Heaven in Stone and Glass – in theaters on…...
The Saint behind the???Dark Night???
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (78+ words) Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 For the Carmelites, 2026 is a jubilee year dedicated to St. John of the Cross, marking 300 years since his canonization and 100 years since he was proclaimed a doctor of the Church. Raymond and…...
The Greatness of the First St. Gregory
1+ week, 4+ day ago (690+ words) Stephen P. White on Thursday, September 3, 2026 Gregory was born into one of the great families of Rome. Among its members were many senators, consuls, and more than one emperor. Gregory’s father was a senator and his great-great-grandfather was Pope St. Felix…...
The English Martyrs and Tyburn???s Hidden Waters
1+ week, 5+ day ago (554+ words) Joanna Bogle on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 Their names have come down to us with honor: Edmund Campion, Ralph Sherwin, John Stoughton, and more. Today there are churches and schools named after them, and pilgrims flow steadily to Tyburn where nuns at…...
Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa
1+ week, 6+ day ago (267+ words) Hilaire Belloc on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold And heard a woodland music passing by: You shall receive me when the clouds…...
The Western way of reason
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (52+ words) Victor Davis Hanson, New Criterion on Monday, August 31, 2026 On the intellectual legacy of ancient Greece and Rome. ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’: a 20-minute documentary on the forthcoming Mel Gibson film National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Dallas,…...
Chimes of Freedom
2+ week, 2+ day ago (900+ words) Fr. Raymond J. de Souza on Saturday, August 29, 2026 Is Bob Dylan’s music a Catholic thing? Many a homilist has quoted his 1979 song Gotta Serve Somebody, especially against the argument that unbelievers are freer because they don’t have to serve God. Dylan…...
Is Religious Faith Foolishness??? or Wisdom?
2+ week, 3+ day ago (463+ words) Msgr. Charles Fink on Friday, August 28, 2026 Why is there something rather than nothing? Why is that something such that it has the remarkable capacity to evolve into the complex yet orderly universe we behold, so orderly that predictability and science…...
The Pelagian Drinking Song
2+ week, 5+ day ago (272+ words) Hilaire Belloc on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 Pelagius lived at Kardanoel And taught a doctrine there How, whether you went to heaven or to hell It was your own affair. It had nothing to do with the Church, my boy, But was…...
Defending the Social Kingship of Christ
2+ week, 6+ day ago (499+ words) Kristen Ziccarelli on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 There are few things more foreign to the modern imagination than the idea of a Christian king. We are accustomed to separating the sacred from the political, faith from public life, and the Church from…...