Chucking Amazon Prime

Chucking Amazon Prime

A friend recently sent a link explaining that Amazon had launched a new show having to do with Satan. Without knowing the writers or plotlines, I can imagine it will try to be witty and sophisticated, sneering at one whom only serious Christians regard as a formidable...
Our Challenge

Our Challenge

While we rejoice in the possibilities of a post-Roe America, it must be remembered that children are still at grave risk when the adults around them refuse to acknowledge reality. This is my latest piece for Catholic World Report. Can we commit to promoting the basic...
Tension without Tension

Tension without Tension

The mother as a bridge between generations is as firm a sign of the Church as any that exists, for she is called to cherish proven traditions that help souls to flourish while delighting in new gifts showered on the world. She remembers the pain and the Providence...
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...
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...