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Saturday, December 28, 2024

“It is better to be Herod’s hog than his heir.” ~ Did Herod's Massacre of the Innocents actually happen?

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Detail from  The Massacre of the Innocents by Léon Cogniet, 1824. Three days after the feast of the Nativity of Jesus, the Catholic Church ...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

A Review of Lest Darkness Falls by L. Sprague de Camp

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Years ago, I wrote a pretty scathing review of Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court , Mark Twain’s opus in which a clever young America...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

1,000,000 Views

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This humble blog hit 1,000,000 views yesterday. Considering its rambling and rather uninspired beginnings in 2005, that's not too shabby...
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Friday, October 25, 2024

My Top 10 Historical Novels for Young Catholics

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Seven of my top 10. The others are in the house somewhere... Having homeschooled our six children for going on twenty years now, I'm sta...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

The Leper-King of Jerusalem Rides Again. A review of Susan Peek's Crusader King

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Click for more info. This is a review I wrote many years ago (and never posted here) for a book that has stood the test of time: Crusader Ki...
Thursday, October 03, 2024

Banned (Catholic) Books Week

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Banned Book Week was last week. Did you miss it?  For anyone who took it seriously, let me just say this: Banned Book Week is a complete fra...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

The 2024 Presidential Debates in a Nutshell

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Just for Fun.
Monday, September 09, 2024

"There they go again." ~ The critics hate Reagan. But they're wrong -- again.

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Is anyone surprised that the critics have absolutely savaged the new film, Reagan ?  I'm not.  As a teenager in the 1980s, I came of age...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

A library of memes at the Arx Publishing website

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Arx Publishing has recently gone live with a page of glossy quote cards  for purchase. If some of them look familiar, it's because near...
Friday, August 09, 2024

"Bravery cannot be victorious unless it is arrayed along with justice." ~ Belisarius's speech at Abydos, AD 533

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"Bravery cannot be victorious unless it is arrayed along with justice." ~Belisarius This quote is taken from an exhortation by the...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Mocking Christ in Paris

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The Last Supper in cast iron, as found in the Mercer Museum, Doylestown, PA I'm not going to get into the details of the disgusting mock...
Thursday, July 04, 2024

St. Clair Augustin Mulholland ~ Irishman. Philadelphian. Artist. Civil War Hero. Catholic.

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General St. Clair Augustin Mulholland later in life. As Independence Day approaches each year, I make a habit of finding a patriotic movie o...
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A Roman tribune, my heroics helped defeat the Persians at the Battle of Satala in AD 530. Leading a squadron of heavy cavalry into the Persian center, I grabbed hold of the standards of the Persian general Mermeroes and flung them to the ground. Thinking their general slain, the Persian army fled from the field, but not before their elite Immortals dealt me a fatal wound.
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