Saint Andrew Kim Taegon,  martyred near Seoul,  Korea in 1846. Andrew Kim Taegon was the first native-born Catholic priest in Korea. ...

What do you get when you make one of the most epic sieges in history the setting of a 21st century secular morality play? A truly bizarre ...

Today is the 1,696th birthday of the Roman emperor Constantius II. One of the sons of Constantine the Great, Constantius was the longest liv...

Here is a review I wrote in 2007 but for some reason, it never made it onto the blog. Having recommended this book to dozens of people since...

Great for summer reading, Between the Forest and the Hills is a clever, fast-paced historical novel set at the twilight of Roman Britain,...

Bust of Claudius II Gothicus from Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia, Italy May 10, AD 213, is reputedly the birthday of the Roman emperor...

Original image of St. Theodore taken from: http://www.cerkiew.pl/index.php?id=swieci&tx_orthcal[sw_id]=802&cHash=bb67994247 ...

Click here to share. April 19 is the anniversary of the Battle of Callinicum (or Callinicus), a major battle between the Romans and Pers...

Click here to share on Facebook . Who was Saint Patrick? Well, for starters, he wasn't Irish. He was born a Roman (Patricius) during...

The real Saint Patrick was a man of tremendous faith, courage and humility. Too often, these characteristics are obscured by the legends ...

The Conclave is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, March 12 on the traditional calendar feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great. The faithful are...

"I am not the Son of God. I'm just a philosopher who wants people to be nice to each other." #ThingsJesusNeverSaid What Je...

Here's another one of these in the same vein. "Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, the effeminate, homosexuals, thieves, the ...

Click here to share on Facebook. Yes, someone else came up with this general idea ( #ThingsJesusNeverSaid - go "like" them ...

"It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin." ~St. Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones disputatae: De carit...

"The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion." ~Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, said at the National Prayer Breakfast, F...

"Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity." -Mary Wollstonecraft...

"The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus." ~Victoria Woodhull in Woodhull and Claflin's...

"Without the family we are helpless before the State." Taken from the endless font of Catholic wisdom, Gilbert Keith Chestert...

This meme was inspired by an article in the NY Times by Ross Douthat entitled " The Birthrate and America's Future. "  It ...