Yep, I’m convinced, Western Civilization is in its death throes. When will the end come and what form will it take? I can only guess, but th...

I suppose we can safely say that Israel experienced an intelligence failure of massive proportions when the nation was caught by complete su...

Every day I read things that disturb, perplex, amaze, outrage, and occasionally even delight me. Most often I just set these news bits aside...

Note: Years ago, the deacons of our parish often preached at both daily and Sunday Masses, but like so many things in life, this changed, an...

I’ve often been accused of living in, or wanting to live in, the past, as if such thoughts were some kind of weird psychological aberration....

Readings: Is 9:1-6; • Ps 112 • Lk 1:26-38 ______________________ Today’s feast, this Memorial of the Queenship of Mary, is really fairly r...

Here's another unpreached homily...but I was ready, more or less, just in case. That's something I've learned to do over the yea...

Yesterday, those of us who identify with the "permanent things" conservatism of Russell Kirk and others like him, lost one of our ...

Readings: Dt 10:12-22; • Ps 147 • Mt 17:22-27 _______________________ Because we have the gift of hindsight, thanks to the Gospel, you and...

Readings: Ex 2:1-15a • Psalm 69 • Mt 11:20-24 ____________________ One of the remarkable things about the Old Testament is the willingness o...

I noticed a one-paragraph story in this morning’s paper, one of those world news blurbs from the A.P. presumably used by an editor to fill u...

A few days ago I read that National Geographic might be on its last legs. Walt Disney, the corporation that now owns the magazine, has fire...