For the past quarter of a century, I’ve been honoured to edit the St. Austin Review, popularly known as the StAR, a Catholic cultural journal, published six times a year. The StAR was launched in September 2001, […]
As Americans celebrate their independence from England, it is worth remembering an Englishman, later to be lionized by G. K. Chesterton, who moved to the United States in 1792, when the American nation was in […]
Something strange is happening in the heart of Europe. Something is stirring. What is happening, what is stirring, is the stirring of the people of Europe against the decadent ascendancy that has ruled the roost […]
[T]here remains the historical truth: that this our European structure, built upon the noble foundations of classical antiquity, was formed through, exists by, is consonant to, and will stand only in the mold of, the […]
“We are builders of bridges, not of walls,” said Bishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, a senior member of the Roman Curia, in January 2017. His words were a reaction to President Trump’s ordering restrictions on immigration […]
Back in 2017, before the covidious cloud descended like madness, the world might have seemed a saner and simpler place. It wasn’t. It was the same dark and dismal place it is today, a vale […]
A few weeks ago, on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12), a great crusading spirit passed from this land of exile to her true home. Siobhan Nash-Marshall’s death, following a long and […]
It is, of course, right and proper to keep Christ in Christmas, but can it be right and proper to introduce the saints into Thanksgiving? Isn’t Thanksgiving a secular holiday, as oxymoronic as that might […]
What do the great literary epics tell us about the epochs in which they were written? And, more importantly, what do these epics and epochs tell us about our own epoch? To what extent are […]
William Shakespeare is a mystery. What we know about the facts of his life is outweighed by what we don’t know. His life can be likened metaphorically to a jigsaw puzzle in which most of […]
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