The Fruit of the Virgin

Local refinement becomes national character.

The Demons of the Air seek to make men in their image; wild, rough, vulgar, rude, and silly...

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...

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...

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...