Stabat Mater

The way it goes at this point in my life, about half of my Catholic friends…

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…

In Defense of Pipe Smoking

This article, my dear reader, is not, at least intentionally, a call for those who do…

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…