Much water has flown under Tiber’s bridges, carrying away splendour and mystery from Rome, since the pontificate of Pius XII. The essentials, I know, remain firmly entrenched and I find the post-Conciliar Mass simpler and...

I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters.Readers don’t want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it.

On the conversion of the European tribes to Christianity the ancient pagan worship was by no means incontinently abandoned. So wholesale had been the conversion of many peoples, whose chiefs or rulers had accepted the...

Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others’ enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically...