When Stars Had Eyes
“Justice was once heralded as the guide star of human civilization and the form of a life well lived. It still is the guiding light of human life, but it has become clouded by darkness in the modern day where we are no longer habituated to seeing justice as something noble. We do not love virtue like our predecessors did, and especially not cold justice which is used to invoke burdensome obligations against comfort and is so often put in tension with the cheerier (we imagine) traits of mercy and love.”
On Chivalry
“Can the lion lie down with the lamb and still retain his royal ferocity? That is the problem the Church attempted; that is the miracle she achieved.” That is true greatness. That is our path to victory in this age, for Christ and for his Kingdom.
Safe to Hope
I always feel a keen sense of sorrow when my family removes our Christmas decorations, puts our Nativity scene away in storage, and drags our tree out to the curb. Certainly I try, as Charles Dickens bids us, “to keep Christmas in my heart all the year long,” but the
Light In Which Darkness Drowns: Bl. Bartholomew Longo
Our generation is not the first to confront the despair of Atheism.
A Call to Create: Saving Children’s Media
It’s our mission to help raise up the next generation to be better than ourselves.
Chesterton and Bettelheim on the Fairy Tale
With Chesterton, Bettelheim sees the Beast story from the inside.