Broken Brotherhood

By |2025-11-28T19:45:36-06:00November 27th, 2025|Categories: Bible, Catholicism, Friendship, Happiness|

We are all brothers because of the love of God the Father for us. It turns out that brotherhood does not have to remain broken after sin. Jesus Christ, in showing us the love of the Father, reveals that true brotherhood is beatific. Brothers do not have a good record in the Bible. The book [...]

Theories of Thankfulness

By |2025-11-26T20:00:15-06:00November 26th, 2025|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Michael De Sapio, Senior Contributors, Thanksgiving, Timeless Essays|

Gratitude—both gratitude to the human persons around us and the ultimate gratitude toward the personal God—brings to us a sense of order and peace, a grounding in truth that sets us free. Gratitude, by Dietrich von Hildebrand, Balduin V. Schwarz, Joseph Ratzinger, and Romano Guardini (135 pages, Hildebrand Project, 2023) The great spiritual teachers tell [...]

David McCullough’s “History Matters”

By |2025-11-25T16:02:41-06:00November 25th, 2025|Categories: Books, Chuck Chalberg, History, Senior Contributors|

None of the pieces in this collection are excerpts from David McCullough's many books. And none are culled from anything that might have been on its way to becoming an autobiography. They are simply essays, talks, and musings offered by David McCullough the writer, the student, the artist, and the reader. History Matters, by David [...]

Skyjack: The Mystery of D.B. Cooper’s Thanksgiving Eve Jump

By |2025-11-26T13:07:37-06:00November 25th, 2025|Categories: Audio/Video, History, Stephen M. Klugewicz, Thanksgiving, Timeless Essays|

In the end, we want D.B. Cooper's true identity to remain a mystery. We want him to continue to "get away with it"—such a brave, courteous, refined outlaw from a simpler era deserves better than to be caught by us postmoderns. On the evening of November 24, 1971—the day before Thanksgiving—a dark-haired man dressed in [...]

The Shepherd of Hermas

By |2025-11-25T10:11:07-06:00November 24th, 2025|Categories: Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Faith, Virtue, W. Winston Elliott III|

For nearly three hundred years, "The Shepherd of Hermas" gave instruction to the members and catechumens of the early Church. It taught them the Christian virtues and called for repentance. After being left out of the cannon of the New Testament, however, "Hermas" faded in popularity and use. So when “the Lord of the flocks [...]

Gifts From We Know Not Where

By |2025-11-24T16:50:55-06:00November 24th, 2025|Categories: Beauty, Culture, Essential, Featured, Graduation, Great Books, Homer, Mystery, Odyssey, Timeless Essays|

We can encourage openness of expectation in ourselves and in one another, so that the mysterious gifts of experience, strange exhilarations and wonders, gifts from we know not where, will not be lost on us. A just expectation of life may include an expectation of moments that seem mysterious gifts from we know not where. [...]

William F. Buckley Jr. at 100

By |2025-11-23T19:22:58-06:00November 23rd, 2025|Categories: Conservatism, Journalism, William F. Buckley Jr., Willmoore Kendall|

One really misses something about William F. Buckley Jr. to not grasp that this man was a fighter. Not everyone blessed with logic lacks spirit. Monday marks the centenary of William F. Buckley Jr.’s birth. Those misled by recent mischaracterizations of the National Review co-founder might imagine a French fop’s harpsichord or Gavin MacCleod’s Love [...]

Depart From Me, Lord

By |2025-11-23T15:54:45-06:00November 23rd, 2025|Categories: Bible, Catholicism, Grace, Poetry|

Depart from me, Lord. Depart from me, for I am a sinful man. Why have you come to me? Why have you called me? You know me. You’ve searched me . . . And so you already know there’s nothing that you will find in me. I have nothing to offer you. Only weakness. Weakness and [...]

Duty and Delight: C.S. Lewis on Beauty in the Psalms

By |2025-11-21T13:13:27-06:00November 21st, 2025|Categories: Beauty, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Michael De Sapio, Music, Poetry, Senior Contributors|

As a literary scholar, C.S. Lewis’s principal concern in his "Reflections on the Psalms" is to vindicate the Psalms as poetry and, therefore, vehicles of beauty, delight, and even (as he boldly puts it) “mirth.” These are things which, Lewis says, modern humanity needs badly. One of the great constants in my life has been [...]

All That Is Beautiful & Terrible: The Feast of Saint Cecilia

By |2025-11-21T13:25:02-06:00November 21st, 2025|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Catholicism, Christendom, Conservatism, Sainthood, Timeless Essays, Western Civilization|

No matter how corrupt and bleak and depressing the world may appear, we can always turn to the many Cecilias of the world and see the goodness that is possible through grace and love. Properly remembered, these true symbols and true myths can re-orient our souls, our cultures, and perhaps even the world itself toward [...]

Shakespeare Makes a Fool of His Censors

By |2025-11-20T19:41:36-06:00November 20th, 2025|Categories: Joseph Pearce, Literature, Senior Contributors, William Shakespeare|

Heeding Shakespeare’s insistence that we need to heed the wisdom of the fool, it shocked me that a recent production of "King Lear" at a local Christian university had excised most of the key speeches of Poor Tom, which enunciate radical Christian wisdom, thus eviscerating Shakespeare's profound moral vision. For the wisdom of this world [...]

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