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She Took The Ten Days

2026/10/28

Mae West chose a jail term over a fine in 1927, and the coverage taught a crowd that a morals charge could sell seats. Later popes still called the screen a gift that could teach.

They Prayed Over The President

2026/10/26

Bishops prayed over the president in the Oval Office, and some Catholics treated the prayer itself as the offense.

Regrets, Too Few to Mention

2026/10/24

Sinatra's My Way calls a finished life the one where the regrets stay unmentioned. Confession is the decision to mention them.

They Burned the Building Where a City Argues

2026/10/22

On October 17 they set the Limoges town hall on fire. John Paul II did not predict that fire. In 1998 he named what happens when a people can no longer aim at a shared truth.

The Medium is the Message — Marshall McLuhan's Slow Revelation of the Danger of Technology

2026/10/21

Marshall McLuhan warned that the screen matters more than the show on it. Five books, from a stocking ad to a wired planet. He was a Catholic the whole time.

The Perfect Game

2026/10/20

A reading of The Perfect Game, from G.K. Chesterton's Tremendous Trifles. The essay stands on its own.

The Most Dangerous Woman You've Never Heard About

2026/10/19

Shulamith Firestone's 1970 program did not stop at a fairer workplace. It wanted the difference between man and woman erased. The Church calls that envy.

The Secret of a Train

2026/10/17

A reading of The Secret of a Train, from G.K. Chesterton's Tremendous Trifles. The essay stands on its own.

A Piece of Chalk

2026/10/16

A reading of A Piece of Chalk, from G.K. Chesterton's Tremendous Trifles. The essay stands on its own.

Tremendous Trifles

2026/10/15

A reading of the first essay in G.K. Chesterton's Tremendous Trifles. The book and the essay share the name. These readings stand on their own.

Let Me Check With The Boss

2026/10/13

Calling your wife the boss is not humility. It is a small public surrender of the headship Saint Paul names. Ask her. Do not crown her so you can duck the job.

God Made Me the Messenger

2026/10/12

On January 2, 1492, Christopher Columbus watched the banners go up on the Alhambra. He wrote the voyage down in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. On October 12 he named the first island San Salvador. Years later, home in chains, he wrote that God had made him the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth, and he gathered the Scriptures into the Book of Prophecies.

"Full of Grace" Was Not a Compliment

2026/10/10

The angel does not start with her name. Hail, full of grace is a title, naming what God has already done in her. It is not flattery. It is news. God got there first.

We Cannot Speak of Europe Without Christianity

2026/10/09

Last week in Metz, Pope Leo XIV named Saint Benedict and said European civilization as we know it would not exist without the monastic tradition. We cannot speak of Europe without mentioning Christianity. Tom Woods already wrote the book that proves it.

Oscar Wilde

2026/10/05

Oscar Wilde told a crowded room that a book cannot be moral or immoral. Then he wrote The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant, stories where charity knocks the wall down and a Child stands in the garden with the wounds of the Cross. On November 29, 1900, a Passionist priest conditionally baptized him on his deathbed in Paris. The nails stay on the little hands. Wilde left them there.