The English Catholic Who Risked Death for Sacred Music and the Faith
It is music written for an intimate, secret setting... which was punishable in many cases with life imprisonment and even the death penalty.
“Thou art Peter”: a Roman Tradition of Sacred Music
Unsurprisingly, Palestrina’s Iberian counterpart, Tomás Luis de Victoria, also has a six voice setting of this text.
The Brother of All Sinners
To be happy he would have to make himself immortal.
10th Anniversary of a Powerful Film
This documentary will surprise and awe you.
The Harp of the Holy Spirit
Against the Gnostic heretics, who sowed errors everywhere by means of song.
Forgotten Customs of Saints Peter and Paul
The Apostles began the rudiments of the Christian warfare with holy fasts, that, having to fight against spiritual wickednesses, they might take the armour of abstinence, wherewith to slay the incentives to vice.
From Architecture to Contraception: A Journey to Paris
The mercy He gives us, one of many mercies, is that we don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
Custom and the Force of Law
When traditionalists insist that the products of last century’s Montinian tyranny are valid, we show more charity to our detractors than they do to us.
The First English Female Writer and Mystic
But suddenly, after the priest at her bedside showed her the Crucified One, Julian stopped suffering and had sixteen visions.
The Catholic Music of an Anglican Coronation
Today we would need an aesthetic conversion, to truly return to the beauty that speaks to us of God.
The Italian Baroque Marian Music of Easter
The storms, caused by the “crude north wind,” are the threats of Lucifer under the name of Boreas, the icy wind coming the north.
