The Fruit of the Virgin

"Beauty, Art, Will, Conscience and Spiritual Strength to face and to endure even the inevitable pangs and pains of a full life—nay, the...

Circassian Cavalry Awaiting their Commanding Officer at the Door of a Byzantine Monument (1880) Alberto Pasini (Italian, 1826 - 1899)...

Excerpt from Cicero's On Duty: But the most marked difference between man and beast is this: the beast, just as far as it is moved by the...

Men who aspire to honor should fear status without merit.

We cannot assess the new "mascot" of the upcoming jubilee without understanding Catholic Sense and aesthetics.

Elites play the strings of society to produce a harmonious whole.

Does rape dispense the mother from bringing a child to fruition? Rape, we argue, does not. The simple reasoning is that it is never licit...

Man is a walking ambiance. As the various elements of an ambiance—music, lighting, aromas, colors, furniture, and the like—produce...

Local refinement becomes national character.

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...

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...