The Italian Church used to be preserved from secularisation, but this blessed time seems over.

Casablanca is not about passion, but about altruistic love, animated by the rare spirit of sacrifice.

Perhaps we do not need a new and very different St. Benedict. We need old-fashioned, traditional Benedictines, and we need them everywhere.

Lies must be refuted: if not relieved by truth-telling resentment shall one day bring everything down.

With the fall of monasticism, Christianity became largely an intellectual exercise.

The survival of the Christian West will require a revival of monasticism.

Even at its nadir, the French capital remains a beacon of liberty—and, paradoxically, a reason for hope in a Western renaissance.

Greek thinkers attempted to understand the world within the context of their own religious beliefs and traditions.

The American poet John Finlay died of a disease bred out of his own sins, but he prepared himself to see Truth face-to-face.

Catholic publishers should produce editions that can be treasured for generations.

Bellini is poor, it is true, in his instrumentation and harmony! ... But rich in feeling and in an entirely

Undset is clear that the moral wounds we inflict on ourselves and others are at the root of our misery. 

Candidates for baptism feel a deep and visceral need for civilisational coherence.

The Cross is the most awful sign the world has ever known, and the only sign that brings victory and hope: “In hoc signo vinces.”

Many conservatives hold something approaching old Cavalier principles, but they are no more influential than their predecessors were under Cromwell.

Familiarity with the artistic canon is essential for those who would create it.

How do they cope with having a last name synonymous in the minds of millions with breathtaking evil?

The difficulty that a Jordan Peterson or an Andrew Tate have articulating faith in God is paradigmatic of the West’s decline.

The victorious ideals of 1688 and 1776 are bound together.

Dante’s depiction of song conveys an essential truth about music’s relationship to the divine.

Who needs Hell when you have Davos?

Chega managed to break the siege and assert itself as an instrument of protest by the ‘people’ against ‘the regime.’

Conservatives shouldn’t be afraid of this movement despite its obvious paganism.

OnlyFans-style normalization of virtual pornography robs young men of the instinct to possess, to lay claim, to civilize.

When the people banded together to protect Portugal’s heritage, the Left crumbled.

Cultures of the past instinctively recognised the connexion between physicality and objective truth.

Europe was from the beginning more than the Continent that bears that name.

Auguste Rodin’s friendship with an American bodybuilder shows the close relationship between the sport and art.

Ronald Reagan knew how to be a great president.

When man’s nature is reduced to sophisticated machinery, there remains no place for the heart.