The princess-nun

The princess-nun

God bless Youtube’s aggregator which alerts me to the most remarkable array of videos, including this one on Prince Philip’s mother. What a painful life she led, her deafness being the least of her problems. This great-grand-daughter of Queen Victoria was...
She read it so we don’t have to

She read it so we don’t have to

Mary Rezac offers a boisterous pushback to a book that is not just bad, but very bad. Bad in the sense that she expected far more from a Christian, from the daughter of a pastor, and the mother of four children. Girl, Wash Your Face seems to be a thing–a thing...
Mother Yvonne-Aimée

Mother Yvonne-Aimée

This week was the 68th anniversary of the death of Mother Yvonne-Aimée, a foundress born in Brittany, renowned for her generosity, patient suffering, and total oblation to the will of God. Dom Mark Kirby (of Silverstream Priory) writes of a gift he acquired by reading...
Worst Superbowl Ad?

Worst Superbowl Ad?

Hands down. Why? Because it degrades the whole effort to encourage and affirm girls. Profiling an all-girl team (seriously, ten-year-old girls) against a full-fledged male lineup with 10 times their body weight, they were allowed to pathetically move the ball forward...