The day after Christmas is St. Stephen's Day, who has the honor of the appointment because he was the first Christian martyr (unless on...

Home again and glad of it: up and back in one day is a long haul.  Our neighbor was kind enough to let the dogs out twice and feed them, tho...

We were late to midnight Mass, because I had relied on my memory about when it started instead of checking. It was a pleasant Christmas Eve...

Translation of "Agni Parthene" ("O Virgin Pure") at Wikipedia

I hope you are all having a Merry Christmas.

They used to know how to throw a party, back in that old America.

This test claims I'm right-brained.

h/t Bookworm Room

I could watch this all day.

No kidding . "Hey listen gentlemen, it’s totally up to you to attend,” said CSM Marc A. Scott during the course of an hour-long briefin...

I don't know if any readers live in Virginia, but their anti-gun governor just announced an end to reciprocity with 25 states on firearm...

Recently, I read Michael Walsh's The Devil's Pleasure Palace , and in a few spots he uses the biblical metaphor of "new wine in...

Thanksgiving, too, but the sentiment is the same.  

H/t David Rousset

The Obama administration insists that it is safe to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees because we have “very extensive screening procedures” in pl...

An article on the different philosophies behind the two classic designs. It's from the HROARR site for Historical European Martial Art...

DMV buys it . Snopes looked into it, and doesn't seem to find anything to dispute about the facts . The author of the piece doesn...

A Marxist Christmas from Existential Comics . UPDATE: Read alongside this story for a pleasant, ironic twist.

In memoriam .