The Fruit of the Virgin

Super flumina. The lamentation of the people of God in their captivity in Babylon. A psalm of David, for Jeremias. For the time of...

If ideas either true or erroneous can be diffused into the foundations of institutions and their respective ambiences and customs then we...

It is proper for the Warrior to assume his enemy's plans are cunning and determination adamantine. It is upon this assumption that he...

Every man has a duty to practice the virtue of magnificence, by it he produces works magnificently (meaning "not easily surpassed") in...

Cultivate good taste in sound by pondering upon the kinds of movements a certain melody married to a rhythm can elicit. When a man of...

Emitte Spiritum Tuum et Creabuntur et Renovabis Faciem Terrae. Our circumstance is exceptional. Society has not collapsed and yet every...

Dear brothers and sisters in Mary, To form a family is to form a religious order in the temporal sphere. The patriarch, its crown, by his...

Dear brothers and sisters in Mary, In times past the demand of the workplace forged refined citizens. Not a demand necessarily of...

God created two marvelous melodies-- the father's authority and the mother's piety. And both have distinguishing notes, finely tuned by...

When the patriarch understands that no thought, word, and deed is superfluous, he has come to terms with his own gravity. When he arrives...

The notion of beauty in all of our works from our gaze to the building of a cathedral is not merely extrinsic to faith but intrinsic.

Pope Pius XII in his allocutions to the Roman Patriciate and Nobility shares a well-known fact. "Society progresses and raises itself up...

Rulers, patriarchs, prophets, and warriors ought to listen to this Mighty Doctor. "Him let neither prosperity elate nor adversity...

We say a person has a beautiful soul by their visible beauty or as medieval philosopher William of Auvergne would say "pulchritudo or...

The Society of Foolishness When we reflect on behavior in media and society we notice they mirror in many respects. For example, we...

"The symbol," writes Dr. Plinio Corrêa de Oliviera, "makes visible what is invisible." Consider courage and a lion appears unveiling its...

Virtuous comportment, the reflection of an enlightened mind. Those ornaments of the mind—maxims, doctrine, wise sayings, and so on— if...

The Divine Artificer delights in adorning his creation. When men inquire into the nature of this adorning they realize it has been...

Why is there an aversion to philosophical discussion? It is most practical. Well here lies the problem most don't find it to be so. But...