I am not Irish myself. However, I grew up among Americans of Irish extraction and my wife is part Irish. I therefore have a great respect an...

Padre Pio is easily the most well-known and beloved mystic saint of the 20th century. Like most people, all I knew about Padre Pio before re...

Roman history is an interest of mine, though normally I prefer to read it "from the horse's mouth" -- that is, from the primar...

The discovery that part of the grounds of Our Lady of the Martyr's shrine had been sold off to become a Buddhist temple certainly put a...

I have a long-standing devotion to the Jesuit Martyrs of North America thanks to a study I did of the early history of the French settlement...

Click here to share this image on Facebook. In the year 1889, Mark Twain wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , a humor...

Here is something completely new and interesting. Back in the 1990s, a couple of guys came up with an idea of retelling Bible stories using ...

Click here for more info. Roman Empire in the West has fallen and Italy is under the government of the Gothic king, Theoderich. Under his ge...

There is something terribly wrong in the fictional Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Catholicism is withering, weighed down by worldly priests and...

I have now read four books by the human quote machine known as G. K. Chesterton, and this one, Orthodoxy , is my favorite so far. In a nutsh...

In my youth, I remember thinking how romantic it was that a boy in seminary or girl considering the consecrated life would "leave all t...

No sooner do I finish a book on Joan of Arc than that same magnificent saint appears in another work I am in the process of reading-- Orthod...

Click here to order a copy. Written by Catholic novelist Louis de Wohl, Saint Joan: The Girl Soldier tells the tale of one of my all-ti...

Steve Turner chose the name "Imagine" for this book. That should have been a tip-off. I suspect his intention was to be ironic--to...

This book has cropped up so many times in so many different conversations, that I realized I had to read it. Now that I have, I am of the op...

If you are looking for a short, uncomplicated, to-the-point bio of Saint Patrick, this book fits the bill. At 140-odd pages and a small trim...

Much contemporary historical fiction is either too vulgar, too politicized, or too full of trite historical clap-trap for me to enjoy. So wh...

On this day, in Anno Domini 525, the city of Edessa , metropolis of Osroene in western Asia minor, was destroyed by a flood of the river Sci...

What do you get when you cross the Aenied, Beowulf, and Xena Warrior Princess? Why, you get Tale of Manaeth , of course, a new work of epic ...