At a banquet of the gods on Mount Olympus, the emperors of Rome were called to account to find which of them was the greatest. When Const...

Having read this book, I can now understand why St. Francis de Sales is a doctor of the Church. Simply put, Philothea, or An Introduction to...

Did you know that one of the greatest kings in Spanish history, Fernando III, was also a saint? I didn't. But thanks to author James Fit...

There's a vocations "crisis" in Spain. According to a Catholic News Agency article there are only 20 Jesuit novices, 5 Franci...

Here's a site that's been put up by a dear family friend who has just gone off to college. The purpose of the site is to be a resour...

(This is an article I wrote back in March for the 2009 issue of the Tarpeian Rock literary magazine . Just getting around to posting it now....

Here's a review of another book which purports to deal with the life and times of Constantine: The Age of Constantine the Great by Jaco...

I have now read, in whole or in part, about a dozen biographies of Constantine the Great, from the original Vita by Eusebius Pamphilus writ...

I met Maureen Wittmann at a Catholic homeschool curriculum fair and found her to be a delightful lady, full of anecdotes and ideas. Her book...

Here is a book on a subject that is perennially interesting to the general public--exorcism. As a Catholic myself, I have never had any doub...

Rolf is the only son of Hiarandi the Unlucky. Most of his father's ill luck springs from the fact that he is compassionate and that his ...

As disgusting and disgraceful as Father Jenkins and the board of Notre Dame have been over the whole Obama commencement speech fiasco, it no...

I found this very interesting work on Google and am bookmarking it for future reference. Lives of the Most Eminent Fathers of the Church tha...

Twelve year old Gretorix is a slave from far off Britain. His master, Justus, has bestowed him upon Diomed, a Roman boy who is paralyzed fro...

Anyone who's a child of the 1980s like I am knows who Dirk Benedict is. He was Starbuck, the hot-shot Viper pilot on the original Battle...

It's good to know that BC is doing such a bang-up job catechizing the students in its care in the basics of Catholic moral teaching. In ...

A dear friend of mine, Frank Lupo (center), passed away suddenly last week at age 37. I knew him from my high school days at St. Joseph'...

Young Hugh is the lame son of an English nobleman--and not just any nobleman. Hugh's father was one of the murderers who struck down Arc...

There's at least one member of MLK's family that got some of the slain civil rights leader's courage. Alveda King placed 1,400 f...

Cyclopædia of Universal History Being an Account of the Principal Events in the Career of the Human Race, from the Beginning of Civilization...