History – Life’s Teacher

Martyrdom of the brothers Justus and Pastor – Sanctity Knows No Age

Another day was drawing to a close in one of the countless Roman cities of the early fourth century. While the increasingly decadent pagans...

Duchess Sophie Chotek von Hohenberg – Marital Fidelity Taken to the Extreme

June 28, 1900. With a determined mind, Archduke Franz Ferdinand – heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – accepted the destiny...

1,700 Years Since the Council of Nicaea – Five Lessons for Today

If history is life’s teacher, we can judge an institution that has existed for two millennia to be privileged! Nothing, except the ever-new action...

Fr. Walter Joseph Ciszek, SJ – Complete Surrender to the Divine Will

We know that the journey of human life is not made up solely or even mostly of joys and pleasures, but that it is...

The Renaissance – The Past Has its Novelties

There are two ways of understanding the present: as the past of the future and as the future of the past. And let the...

The Flight of Dom John VI – An Exodus Between Life and Death

The sun showed itself without veils that day: it seemed to want to contemplate itself in the calm waters of the river, while drying...

The Real Conquerors

The twenty-ninth of March 1549. Almost fifty years after its discovery, around a thousand men from the Lusitanian armada anchored at the Land of...

Anne of St. Bartholomew and the Power of Prayer – An Elite Troop for the Church

“Tell me, who is the first captain of the age?” a noble lady asked Maurice of Nassau.1 “Spinola is the second!” he replied proudly, thereby...