Meeting Gollum on an Airplane
We are all Ring-wearers on occasion, even if we desire to be Ring-bearers.
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Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Isn’t About What You Think It’s About
A closer look at how ‘violent delights have violent ends,’ from a conversation with Juliet’s siblings.
It Takes a Village Idiot
The place of the village idiot as the touchstone for judging a society is central to the plot of two works of literature.
Is Music the Food of Love? You Better Believe It. Mark the Music!
‘The man that hath no music in himself … is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils’
William Shakespeare Was a Defiant Catholic to the Last
Let’s examine what is actually known of the Bard’s last years.
In the Beginning Are the Words: Logos, Language and Liberty
In the beginning was the Word and words are the way that the Word can be better understood and communicated.
A New Catholic Revival in the Arts
After 40 years in the desert, we are beginning to see a new Catholic revival in the arts.
8 Popes and the Bloodiest of Centuries
If the 20th century teaches anything, it is that the sanity of sanctity is always the seed of life.
Henry VIII Was Indeed a ‘Horrible, Horrible Person’ — But Should We Cancel Him For It?
Pride — whether it’s the pride of the Tudors or the pride of moderns — is destructive.
Catacombs, Capitulation and the Catholic Church in China
Cardinal Zen, former Bishop of Hong Kong, has been a frontline soldier for the Church Militant in its spirited resistance to the secular fundamentalism of Chinese communism.
