Should We Receive Communion Only Once a Year?
By:The history of the Church's practice regarding the receipt and distribution of the Eucharist is an interesting one. The Apostles received communion da…
History and Tradition
Masculine Failure in the Passion of Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas
By:#MeToo We live in a culture that is both overtly sexualized and violent. When those two trends collide, collectively society is rightly appalled as we…
The War for the Beautiful
By:What do you really know about art? If you’re like me, not nearly enough. Cultured Catholic men often explore Gregorian chant and liturgical music to en…
Iran and the Muslim Hillbillies
By:To the delight of freedom-lovers and theocracy-haters around the world, Iranians are protesting the cruelty, corruption, and overwhelming ineptitude of…
Matt Lauer, Russia and Our Lady
By:You might be asking yourself how these three go together. To be honest I was picking on Matt Lauer. You could easily insert Al Franken, Harvey Weinst…
St. Andrew the Apostle: Patron Saint of “Second Fiddles”
By:Biblically speaking, if anyone had the right to resent playing “second fiddle” to anyone, particularly a sibling, it was Andreas bar Yochannan, better …
Review: Storm of Fire and Blood
By:With Storm of Fire and Blood, Dr. Taylor Marshall’s epic trilogy centered on the life of Lucius Aurelius Georgius Cyrenicus, a.k.a. St. George, takes i…
Redeeming the Crusades: A Review of God’s Battalions
By:Few events in history are as misunderstood and misrepresented as the Crusades. From the Enlightenment onward, scholars and historians have criticized t…
Dunkirk- A Different Kind of War Film
By:Although, Christopher Nolan conceived of the idea for making Dunkirk some 25 years ago, he decided to wait until he had refined his movie making skills…
Sts. Simon Kananaios and Jude Thaddaeus, Apostles
By:Usually at the end of the list of apostles, Sts. Simon and Jude are two of the apostles about whom the least is known with certainty. Simon the Zealot…