With participants in this year’s March for Life converging upon Washington this week, it seems to me apropos to consider one of the Western Civilization’s profoundest reflections upon the Fifth Commandment. In a pivotal scene […]
Thanks to the myth of there being a perpetual war between science and religion, even broad-minded unbelievers are liable to think the faithful are trying to effect damage control when we emphasize that the Bible […]
Homer’s Odyssey, if anything, is about that love of home which motivates and sustains the indomitable hero Odysseus, “the man of many ways.” To get back to his native Ithaka following the Trojan War Odysseus […]
In classical Christian education circles, it is often asked why Christian students should bother with pagan authors. Who needs Virgil and Aristotle, so the question goes, when you’ve got the Church Fathers and Doctors? Like […]
“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase.” — Aldous Huxley, Foreword to Brave New World Many liberals seem to think that dystopian cautionary tales can only be directed against the […]
“Why isn’t Pilecki better known? There is a simple answer: his story was intentionally suppressed by the postwar communist regime in Poland […]” — Michael Shudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland With The Auschwitz Volunteer having […]
In Quarto Abeunte Saeculo, Pope Leo XIII shows us why the voyage of Christopher Columbus stands in a class by itself. There is simply no way of comparing the Genoan’s landfall in the Americas with […]
Bernard Brien’s book Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, Truth Versus Totalitarianism (Ignatius Press, 2018) reminds us that the age of saints and matyrs is not quite past. […]
The tantalizing lie of revolution is the idea that heaven-on-earth sits right around the corner, provided some hated class can be overthrown and then purged […]
James Papandrea is quite right in giving pop science fiction closer attention than others might think it warrants, for there are deeper ideas at stake […]
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