Coincidentally: My Love For Minnehaha
It is clumsy to speak of the American Indian as a cipher for one people, for he was a cacophony…
Fanatics of Love: A Defense of Fanaticism
“Fanatic” is now modern society’s supreme insult—especially when combined with “religious.” The other new F-word is “fundamentalist.” When the federal…
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
It is a terrible paradox that the pursuit dedicated to improving the human condition bears the greatest potential to destroy humanity….
Citizens of the Kingdom
Join us this November 5th for a talk by Andrew Beckwith, President of the Massachusetts Family Institute. He will deliver…
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was missing. The year was 1849. There had been no trace of Mr. Poe for six days…
Coincidentally: Speaking of Wales
The Editor of this journal has asked me to write columns on matters of insignificance, as a respite from so…
The Problem of Pain: Why Was God AWOL During the Holocaust?
“Pain is the only evil I know,” says the worldly Doctor Core to the priest in Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s…
Do the Dead Come Back and Watch the Living? On Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
by Emma Warner
Every reader loves a good ghost story. And that is why Daphne du Maurier’s Romantic-Gothic novel, Rebecca has thrilled readers since its publication…
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes by Mother Goose
There is a gravestone in Boston’s Granary Burying Ground that legend purports marks the resting place of Mother Goose. Now, whether…
Heart to Heart: Newman on the Laity
No Catholic figure, since St. Thomas Aquinas, has matched the creative mind of John Henry Newman. But if he is…
Coincidentally: Latitudes and Attitudes
The Reverend Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) lived in an age that is commonly caricatured as one of beef and ale and…
A Just War Theory of Homeschooling
Given the increasing popularity of homeschooling among faithful Catholics, it is vital that those who practice it — or are thinking…
Wartime Morality in Ambrose Bierce’s “A Horseman in the Sky”
The extant portion of the six-mile long Civil War front at Cold Harbor, Virginia is small enough to explore in an…
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen: A Tale of Resurrection
Just as baptism and burial are seldom associated with one another, neither are a duckling and the Resurrection. The interconnectivity of…
Shining in the Sun
A pre-publication review of Theological Cautions — A Doctrinal Analysis of the Church in France and Elsewhere by Father Paul Toinet, translated from the…
The House of Usher & the House of Poe: Celebrating 175 Years of Horror
Edgar Allan Poe. Enigmatic. Eccentric. Erratic. Melancholic. Alcoholic. Neurotic. But above all else, Fantastic. Throughout his 40 tormented years of…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Be warned. As you read this, the demons are grinding the glorious creatures of folklore into distorted glorifications of the grotesque….
Will Rascals Defend Our Civilization… and What Books will they Read?
He faces execution each day. Seven days a week, his jury of peers votes unanimously for capital punishment. The judge’s…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes
George Bernard Shaw wrote that “Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait,” and he was absolutely…
