“American Pie”: Our Great Lament

There’s a decent chance, when you hear “a long, long time ago,” that everyone will sing…

G.K. Chesterton’s “Lepanto”

Dim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard, / Where only on a nameless throne a…

A Halloween Movie for the Horror-Hater

With Halloween just having passed, many thrilling movies have recently finished crossing the screens of viewers…

The “Quia Respexit” of Bach’s Magnificat

It has been about nine months since our Culture editor Marcello Brownsberger has proposed J.S. Bach’s…

Adoro Te Devote

There is something very beautiful about not understanding beautiful words, pace boomers. It gives a sense…

Actual Catholic Shia LaBeouf

With St. Padre Pio’s feast day having just passed, the arrival of Padre Pio, the new…

Preaching from the Banjo: The Spirituality of The Hillbilly Thomists’ Holy Ghost Power

Among the many incongruities of life, there are few more odd and charming as the Hillbilly…

Me Non Praetermisso, Domine

There are two images, or rather depictions, of the Lord that touch my mother like no…

The Passion of the Christ

This Good Friday, I watched the 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ for the first…

Our Brave New World

George Orwell’s 1984 enjoys a status in our culture as the dystopian novel. The term Orwellian…