Book Review: The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen
“Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.”
– Psalms 143:1
Tag: history
Stupor Mundi
“When the Judge His seat shall gain,
All that’s hidden shall be plain,
Nothing shall unjudged remain.”
– Excerpt from the “Dies Irae”
Book Review: Dante Alighieri: Citizen of Christendom by Fr. Gerald G. Walsh, S.J.
“For We admire in him not only supreme height of genius but also the immensity of the subject which holy religion put to his hand. If his genius was refined by meditation and long study of the great classics it was tempered even more gloriously, as We have said, by the writings of the Doctors and the Fathers which gave him the wings on which to rise to a higher atmosphere than that of restricted nature. And thus it comes that, though he is separated from us by centuries, he has still the freshness of a poet of our times: certainly more modern than some of those of recent days who have exhumed the Paganism banished forever by Christ’s triumph on the Cross.” – Pope Benedict XV
Book Review: The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin
“From its cradle the Church has never lacked unjust oppression or patient justice. So along with the new battles we also have new warfare by which we can overcome and silence the hordes of the enemy of Christianity and the faith with spiritual armour.” – Nicolaus von Jeroschin
Book Review: Teutonic Knight: 1190–1561 (Warrior) by David Nicolle and Illustrated by Graham Turner
“Read the Scriptures with a receptive mind from beginning to end and you will find that wherever we read that our Lord used his power to heal body and soul, he always concludes with the words, ‘Your faith has made you whole again.’ This is your shield.” – Nicholaus von Jeroschin
Book Review: My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini (Part II)
“I have insisted upon being strong, but I have laboured to be generous.”
– Benito Mussolini
Book Review: My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini (Part I)
“It is a book that is historically valuable, giving us, as it does, intimate pictures of Fascism in theory and practice.” – From the Editor
Book Review: Liberalism Is A Sin by Fr. Felix Sarda y Salvany
“Liberalism is a system, as Catholicism is, though in a contrary sense. It has its arts, its science, its literature, its economics, its ethics; that is, it has an organism all its own, animated by its own spirit and distinguishable by its own physiognomy.” – Fr. Salvany
The Death Penalty Abolition Movement and Modernism
“Pistoia! Pistoia! why have you not decreed
to turn yourself to ashes and end your days,
rather than to spread the evil of your seed!”
– Inferno, XXV. 10-12 (trans. by Ciardi).
Book Review: Saint Anthony, The Wonder-Worker of Padua by Charles Warren Stoddard
“He was a vessel of election, an eagle in knowledge, a wonder-worker beyond compare.” – St. Antoninus