Discovering the Truth Through Holiness and Beauty…

The English Catholic historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) famously believed that ours is a “sub-philosophical” age. Despite the great successes of philosophers and theologians working to teach and popularize the work of St. Thomas Aquinas from the time of Pope Leo XIII in the 1890s until the Second Vatican Council, Dawson believed that what was required […]

Calling mom, singing schism, and catwalking to Mars…

Tomorrow is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, inaugurated in 1571 by Pope Pius V to commemorate the Holy League’s victory at Lepanto after he ordered the faithful of Europe to pray to Herself for success. Our Lady of the Rosary has become, in some sections of the Church, a kind of talismanic […]

Is a Protestant Franco Inevitable?

American conservatives know things are bad. Our Constitution is stretched to the breaking point. Contested elections, failures to pass a federal budget, impeachments, talk of packing the Supreme Court, emerging fights between states about extradition, politicized persecution of dissidents, and many other such strains all reveal the U.S. to be a schizophrenic state, divided by […]