Journeying to Calvary
with the Blessed Mother:
Lynch’s A Woman Wrapped in Silence
By Miriam Schroder, Class of 2017 This is God’s chosen way with men, To take men’s way: and so the…
Flannery O’Connor’s Revelation:
Daily Encounters with Grace and Ugliness
by Paul Guenzel
It must surely be marveled at how one and the same word—nay, one and the same concept—elicits such different reactions….
The Ballad of Judas Iscariot and the Burden of Lent
Lent is a burden and a blessing. It calls Catholics to crawl beneath the weight of themselves to the Cross of…
The Triumph of the Heart in a Time of Pestilence
by Dr. William Fahey /Joseph Pearce
Each week’s summit will include a short talk, panel discussion, and Q&A. Don’t miss this tonic of humor, conviviality, and…
Coincidentally: Moses and the Muses
The Anglo-Irish critic Robert Wilson Lynd observed that only in literature does coincidence seem unnatural. The literary Detection Club, whose…
Coincidentally: Animal Magnetism
The former mayor Marion Barry said of conditions in Washington, D.C., that “the crime rate isn’t so bad if you…
The War of the Worlds and the Significance of Science Fiction
In 1938, the world was waiting for war. Germany had invaded Czechoslovakia. The United States was battling the Great Depression. The…
The Book of Revelation and Global Crisis: Learning to Hope During a Pandemic Apocalypse
A Lecture by J. David Franks, Ph.D. The world is gripped by tribulation now. Apocalyptic prophecy provides guidance on how…
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux: Triumphant Tragedy
All great literature is well written, but not all that is well written is great literature. In other words, there are…
The Book of Revelation and Global Crisis: Learning to Hope During a Pandemic Apocalypse
A Lecture by J. David Franks, Ph.D. The world is gripped by tribulation now. Apocalyptic prophecy provides guidance on how…
Coincidentally: Heirs to the Hairless
Dr. Martin Routh, president of Magdalen College for 63 years, was the last Oxford don to wear a wig in…
Coincidentally: Detachment
To investigate the quack theory of animal magnetism, a hypothesis of Franz Mesmer, for whom mesmerism is named, King Louis…
Coincidentally: Taking Flight
In a recent motion picture, computer technology shows the monster Godzilla toppling the Chrysler Building onto my bedroom. Special effects…
Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown: The American Nightmare
The surrender to sin in America is a species of Satanism. Whether through seduction or submission, depravity is the mantra of…
“Re: Vampires” by John H. Watson, M.D.
NB: The circumstances surrounding my access to this manuscript are of such moment that their publication is impossible. Those involved…
Phil Lawler on Austria’s National TV ORF
by Phil Lawler
Recently Phil Lawler was interviewed for Austria’s National TV ORF. In the interview Phil talks about his book, Smoke of…
Coincidentally: A Bridge to the Future
The promise to “build a bridge to the future” has become a mantra in recent politics. It is less cogent…
Coincidentally: More Varieties of Religious Experience
Felicitous arrangements allowed me as a student to repair weekly to practice the piano in a house by the Folly…
The Spectre Bridegroom and the Immortal Love for Ghost Stories
It was a dark and stormy night… Besides “Once upon a time,” this storytelling opening has no equal. Is there any…
On Mowgli and Tarzan: Savage Reading for Civilized Readers
Despite the incorrigible march of civilization, there will always be an inborn appeal for feral fantasies. The howls of Romulus and…
