2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (468+ words) James P. MacGuire on Saturday, September 12, 2026 In 1896, Episcopal clergyman John Byron Diman founded St. George’s School in Newport, R.I. It became one of the so-called Saint Grottlesex schools, that name being a portmanteau of St. George’s, St. Mark’s, St. Paul’s, Groton,…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (58+ words) Victoria Sands, History Today on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 The consequences of Carthusian defiance showed the brutality of the dissolution of the monasteries. Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s Heaven in Stone and Glass – in theaters on…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (546+ words) Francis X. Maier on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 For three of my 27 years on diocesan staff, I had the attached duty of ecumenical and inter-religious affairs. It was great work. We had good relations with local Protestant and Latter-Day Saint communities; cordial discussions…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (486+ words) Brad Miner on Sunday, September 6, 2026 There was once a monument in Rome called Milliarium Aureum: the Golden Milestone. The Emperor Augustus erected it in the Forum in about 20 B.C. All distances in Ancient Rome were said to be marked from (or…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (64+ words) Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 A weeklong pilgrimage by the Fulton Sheen Movement will lead participants to the places and traditions that shaped Fulton Sheen’s life. ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’: a 20-minute documentary on the forthcoming…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (267+ words) Hilaire Belloc on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold And heard a woodland music passing by: You shall receive me when the clouds…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (52+ words) Victor Davis Hanson, New Criterion on Monday, August 31, 2026 On the intellectual legacy of ancient Greece and Rome. ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’: a 20-minute documentary on the forthcoming Mel Gibson film National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Dallas,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (737+ words) Fr. Raymond J. de Souza on Saturday, August 22, 2026 Communion and Liberation inaugurated the Rimini meeting in 1980, and already in 1982 St. John Paul the Great visited. Pope Leo will be the second pope to visit and what he says about culture, art,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (63+ words) Miłosz Manasterski, The European Conservative on Friday, August 21, 2026 The Polish case illustrates a broader institutional phenomenon: administrative secularization—reducing religion’s place in public life through technical rules rather than an explicit democratic decision to exclude it. How not to read…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (61+ words) J. C. Scharl, Public Discourse on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 Petrarch is one of those strange humanists whose names, in a cruel inversion of the classical model of honor, have outlived any knowledge of their deeds. How not to read the story of the…...