07Jan

The Saintly Benedict XVI

January 7, 2023 Gil Bailie

I devote a great deal of my morning spiritual reading to rereading books that have become dear to me, many...

04Jan

St. Maximus the Confessor

January 4, 2023 Rico McCahon

“Just as the devil had poisoned the tree of knowledge and spoiled our nature by its taste, so too, in...

31Dec

December 31, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

I was received into the Roman Catholic Church at Easter 2006. I was 54 years old. My decision to become...

30Dec

December 30, 2022 Gil Bailie

At the moment of this posting, Benedict XVI is in his last days or moments on earth. As we hold...

29Dec

December 29, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

In the mid 1970’s Walker Percy published a series of essays which he had written over the years in a...

25Dec

December 25, 2022 Gil Bailie

I can’t resist sharing something that I just coincidentally happened upon in my reading this morning, from a book by...

24Dec

December 24, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

In past years in celebration of Christmas we have posted a short excerpt from the Hoover Institutions Uncommon Knowledge series...

23Dec

December 23, 2022 Alex Lessard

O Rex gentium! O King of the peoples! O Rex géntium et desiderátus eárum, lapísque anguláris, qui facis útraque unum:...

21Dec

December 21, 2022 Rico McCahon

The Knight and the Dragon by Tomie dePaola While this is a cute little children’s book with pleasant illustrations and...

18Dec

December 18, 2022 Rico McCahon

Bishop Barron has been great with his investigation of mimetic desire. Here is an interesting post from his Word On...