Mother Mary Lange lived to be more than ninety years old, dying in 1882. Much changed in Baltimore and in the United States during her long and self-sacrificial life. But one thing that never changed was her loyalty to the Catholic Faith and her tireless life of service to Christ and the Church He founded. [...]
In seeing his broken and mortal body in the light of the permanence of his immortal soul, novelist Maurice Baring learned to accept his affliction. Such acceptance is not only the secret of life, as his priest character had proclaimed, it is also the secret of love. There is a painting in London’s National Portrait [...]
These six composers might not have been saints, but the splendor of their voices bears a living witness to the Lord. Well may we hope and pray that their songs may continue to be sung and that they may be heard more clearly amid the din and discord of our modern world. Christianity has died [...]
During the reign of the Danish king Canute, a devout Christian, the Faith in England flourished. The high tide,” King Alfred cried. “The high tide and the turn!” Such was the battle cry of Alfred the Great, rallying the Anglo-Saxons against the pagan Danes, as imagined by G.K. Chesterton in his epic poem The Ballad [...]
Roy Campbell (on the left) Most Catholics have never heard of Roy Campbell. He is forgotten. Neglected. Buried, so it seems, by the inexorable and merciless sands of time. Such neglect is nothing short of scandalous. There was a time, however, when he enjoyed fame and endured infamy, a time in which the [...]
St. Nicholas Owen was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Nobody hid more priests from the Elizabethan butchers than Owen, whose artful construction of priest holes over a period of eighteen years saved many a priest from the gallows, enabling them to continue ministering to England’s beleaguered Catholics in their hour of [...]
It has long been a desire of mine to sing the praises of the unsung. These are those heroes of Christendom who are neglected and not as well-known as they should be. I am now able to sing such praises due to the generosity of Eric Sammons, editor of Crisis Magazine, who has invited me [...]