On the Vocation of Being a Writer, part 1: Dispensable Writers
I consider being a writer less a profession than a vocation.
On the Vocation of Being a Writer, part 1: Dispensable Writers
I consider being a writer less a profession than a vocation.
The Unsung Praises of Antonio Maria Bononcini
Above: Modena. On July 8, 1726—three centuries ago—the composer Antonio Maria Bononcini died in Modena, northern Italy. Born in the same city 49 years earlier, he was the younger brother of the more famous Giovanni Bononcini (†1747), remembered above all as a rival of George Frideric Handel (†1759) in England. After studying in Bologna, Antonio…
“A Rare Find” – High School Student
"This class will push you to grow in your spiritual life and take on new challenges while helping you to understand the state of the Church."
On the Third Part of the Secret of Fátima: Introduction to Recent Scholarship
This vow is a little-known fact in her biography.
In Illo Tempore: 6th Sunday after Pentecost
As I write, it is the very day – 2 July 2026 – upon which, after yesterday’s episcopal consecrations by the SSPX, the Holy See has declared the same SSPX to be schismatic, its bishops excommunicated, their marriages and confessions invalid, and warns clerics and the lay faithful that formal adherence to the SSPX incurs…
Celebrating America 250: Happy Semiquincentennial!
"General Washington is the greatest man of the age.”
On the Consecration of the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
The consecration took place on the same date on which Leo XIII consecrated the world.
Jesus Carries This Cross
"Let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak."
“We know how to get through this.”
"Let us avoid... bitter zeal[.]"
Feasts Lost to Duplication: Pope St. Leo II, St. Anacletus, and the Vanishing of “Double Feasts”
Remembered for confirming the decrees of the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
Vatican: the Schism of Laity Attending the SSPX “is not to be presumed automatically”
"...refraining from every public statement that would oppose either his person or his Magisterium."
