About this time next year, Mel Gibson will release the 2-part sequel to The Passion of the Christ. Better late than never, some will say, although not, perhaps, Jim Caviezel, who so memorably played Jesus, and who has, over the two decades…
First, let’s review the Corporal Works of Mercy, which are seven in number: 1. To feed the hungry2. To give water to the thirsty3. To clothe the naked4. To shelter the homeless5. To visit the sick6. To visit the imprisoned7. To bury the dead…
The current show at America’s greatest museum, Raphael: Sublime Poetry, will run through June 28th of this year. As with most major exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, curators have gathered works by the artist from museums around the…
The feast day of the newest Doctor of the Church, John Henry Newman, is not his dies natalis (death) but 9th October, the day of his conversion in 1845. That date was definitive for the shape of the Catholic Church in England. So much good for…
You may have heard the legend that Saint Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland, but I’m here to tell you it ain’t, exactly, 100-percent true. Now it’s true that Ireland has no snakes today and it’s also true that Saint Patrick is the one that…
My generation, Gen Z, has been graduating from college for about ten years now, and is typically told some variation of the same message at Commencement: go forth and change the world. But not everyone can change the world. And perhaps it’s…
War is a dreadful thing. If we find glory in it, it’s because we admire soldiers for their bravery, prowess, and sacrifice. I’ve known soldiers who march in parades on Memorial Day or the Fourth of July and are proud of their service, exactly as…
Among the thrills in being flat out immobile, or fairly close to it, is that it keeps one out of bookstores. One finally has an opportunity to read what one was putting off until retirement. Irresponsible book-buyers have invariably collected…
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on January 13 in the cases of Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., involving Idaho and West Virginia laws banning males who identify as female from competing in girls’ sports. Most commentators…
The late American Catholic novelist Walker Percy once remarked that the contemporary vision of a human being is a brain connected to a pair of “genitals” (the actual term he used is a bit salty for the present site). There seems to be nothing in…
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