Book Review: Treatise On The Spiritual Life by St. Vincent Ferrer
“Nowhere have I seen virtue painted in such bright colors as in this book.”
– St. Lewis Betrand
Tag: Europe
On the ‘Sleeping Hero’ Legends
Some thoughts about a very moving element of European folklore.
Book Review: The Truth About Teilhard by Monsignor Leo S. Schumacher
“Never was a man more a victim of self-deception.” – Msgr. Leo Schumacher
Book Download: The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church by Ælfric Of Eynsham
God the Father made mankind and all creatures through the Son; and again, when we were fordone, he sent that same Son for our redemption. The holy mother Mary then nourished that child with great veneration, and it waxed, as other children do, without any sin.
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
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 Download: The Triumph of the Cross by Father Girolamo Savonarola, O.P.
Causes are known by their effects, and one of the best arguments in favour of the Christian religion is the reflection that, whereas heathen philosophers have laboured for years to establish rules of conduct, they have gained but few disciples, of whom even the most virtuous have never attained to that standard of living which has been so quickly reached by innumerable Christians of both sexes and of every race and condition.
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