Saturday, June 22, 2024

Quo Primum and the rumored forthcoming attack on Traditional Mass communities

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About two years ago, I wrote a post lamenting the continuing efforts to restrict access to the Traditional Latin Mass by the spiritually to...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Justinian and Theodora in meme-form

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The anxiety of being married to Empress Theodora. I've been creating a good number of memes lately. While what happened to Pope St. Silv...
Wednesday, June 05, 2024

What if Belisarius had accepted the Gothic offer to become Western Roman Emperor in AD 540 ~ And why he didn't

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A fanciful portrait of Belisarius as Augustus of the Western Roman Empire. I left off  the previous post  considering what might have happen...

"They reproached him as a breaker of promises, calling him a slave by his own choice." ~ Belisarius declines the throne of the Western Empire, AD 540

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Belisarius hit the Goths with a major plot-twist in AD 540. Everyone knows that the Western Roman Empire formally ended in AD 476 when Odoac...
Monday, May 20, 2024

"Men Are by No Means Wont to Wage War According to the Judgment of their Enemies." ~ Belisarius rejects Gothic surrender terms, March AD 537

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"Whoever of you has hopes of setting foot in Rome without a fight is mistaken in his judgment. For as long as Belisarius lives, it is i...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

A Review of Cabrini -- A saintly biopic marred by boring Hollywood tropes

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Mother Cabrini (played by Cristiana Dell'Anna) receives the reply of Pope Leo XIII (played by Giancarlo Giannini) My wife and I went to ...
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Saturday, March 09, 2024

The Intense Catholic Spirituality of Mother Cabrini ~ "How grateful we should be to Christianity, which has raised the dignity of woman."

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Photo of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini from the frontispiece of  Travels of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini . Yesterday marked the opening of a n...
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Belisarius and Procopius celebrate the defeat of the Goths at the Siege of Rome, March of AD 538 ~ An excerpt from Belisarius, Book III: Rome the Eternal

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Belisarius and Procopius chat atop the Pincian Gate in Rome.  Image created using hotpot.ai/art-generator In March of the year AD 538, the l...
Saturday, February 03, 2024

Is the floor of Hell paved with the skulls of bishops?

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The well-used quote: "The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops," may be found in a variety of forms. Perhaps the most...
Friday, January 19, 2024

"Why is the believing Catholic not subject to neurosis?" A question posed to Karl Jung in 1939

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Social media grenade-launcher Matt Walsh recently posted the following on his FaceBook page:  "Many people claim to know for a fact th...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

One should never forget about the Persians ~ The Eternal Peace between the Roman Empire and Persia is broken after 8 years

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When Justinian secured the so-called "Eternal Peace" with the Persians in AD 532 after the Battle of Daras , it is likely that he...