The way it goes at this point in my life, about half of my Catholic friends…
Author: Marcello Brownsberger
Tannhäuser, A Catholic Masterpiece
Tannhäuser, A Catholic Masterpiece I recently had the opportunity to attend part of Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser.…
Visibilium Omnium et Invisibilium
Always to some degree, but especially in family-less college, it is difficult to not see a…
“American Pie”: Our Great Lament
There’s a decent chance, when you hear “a long, long time ago,” that everyone will sing…
Et in Arcadia, Ego
Now in the Louvre there is a certain picture which the French call Les Bergers d’Arcadie.…
To Those Jesuits to Whom This Applies
This article is not at all against the Jesuits proper, but it is against a certain…
Adoro Te Devote
There is something very beautiful about not understanding beautiful words, pace boomers. It gives a sense…
Me Non Praetermisso, Domine
There are two images, or rather depictions, of the Lord that touch my mother like no…
Death Comes
Let us begin with the end: you, dear reader, will die. You will likely live anywhere…
One Church, Many Rites: The Anglican Ordinariate
I spent most of my childhood attending a church that maintained a fascinating juxtaposition. The Anglican…