Sunday, March 30, 2025

Young Constantine as a Ward (or Hostage) at Diocletian's Court

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Constantine slays a lion in this detail from a 17th century tapestry by Peter Paul Rubens. As part of the series of tapestries by Peter Paul...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Don Giovanni, Lorenzo Da Ponte, and the Unforgivable Sin

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Don Giovanni confronts the statue of Il Commendatore at the climax of the eponymous opera. During Lent, I usually attempt to limit my consum...
Saturday, March 08, 2025

Was Constantine a Sincere Christian? ~ In his own words: The Oration of Constantine to the Saints

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At 43 feet in height, the replica of the Colossus of Constantine in Rome is truly impressive. Most visitors to Rome over the years have marv...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Catherine Gandeaktena ~ From Savagery to Slavery to Sanctity

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Catherine Gandeanktena and her husband  Francis Tonsahoten, as taken from the cover of Catherine of the Erie .   Practically everyone has he...
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...