The Root of All Virtuosity
St. John of Sahagun This famous French Catholic organist loved Bach so much, he pledged to play all his organ works from memory. He did it in an amazing series of ten concerts in...
True Restoration
A Contending Kind of Love
St. Barnabus A message of mercy and love but so much more: In this lengthy Tradition in Action piece, “The Sacred Heart of Jesus: Symbol of Combativity & Restoration of Christendom,” Atila S. Guimaraes...
Is There Still Valour?
St. Margaret of Scotland What is the main premise of Christianity that Modernism attacks? James V. Schall, S. J., lays it bare in all its simplicity in this excellent essay, “Hope Beyond Thy Sight,”...
And Paul VI Wept
The Death of the Pentecost Octave or Welcome to Ordinary Time: According to “Fr.” Zuhlsdorf, Paul VI was surprised to see green vestments on Pentecost Monday in 1970. Kind of hard to believe, but...
Pastoralia, Episode 5: My Body is a Temple
On this month’s episode of Pastoralia, we are going to tackle some topics in the practical order which have probably touched all of us at one time or another. We will be talking about...
O Lord, Give Us Faith
St. Norbert In this Imaginative Conservative piece, an American socialite remembers the 50th anniversary of D-Day, marked while she was in Normandy for a lavish wedding reception among decadent nobility. She wonders whether...
Clerical Conversations, Episode 13: History, Propaganda, & Catholicism
This month on Clerical Conversations on the Crisis, taking as our starting point a recent article featured on the UK Telegraph, entitled “How a Protestant Spin Machine Hid the Truth about the English Reformation,”...
Appreciate the Sublime
St. Boniface This short Nobility piece makes clear that we cannot expect a great civilization as long as we laud the ugly: “To the degree that members of social units appreciate the sublime together,...
Be Vigilant
St. Francis Caracciolo When is making a carbine your first line of home defense the right choice? Jim Grant of Guns.com explains, via Lew Rockwell. Compassion training for the self-absorbed: The Atlantic reports...
The Aspirations of Mankind
The industrialization of whiskey. Jeffrey Polet tours and tastes Scottish whiskey and learns to appreciate the cooper, in this wistful piece for Front Porch Republic. Comprehensive but still entry-level: According to Mother Earth News,...
