Book Review: The Ancient City by Numa Fustel de Coulanges (Part I)
“Fortunately, the past never completely dies for man. Man may forget it, but he always preserves it within him.”
– Fustel de Coulanges
Tag: Italy
Book Review: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
“O highest Wisdom, how much art you show
in Heaven, on earth, and in the evil world!
How justly does your power apportion all!”
– Inferno XIX. 10-12.
Book Review: Inquisition by Edward Peters
“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”
– Joseph De Maistre
Book Review: My Way of Life by Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Fr. Martin J. Healy, S.T.D.
“With his spirit at once humble and swift, his memory ready and tenacious, his life spotless throughout, a lover of truth for its own sake, richly endowed with human and divine science, like the sun he heated the world with the warmth of his virtues and filled it with the splendor of his teaching.”
– Leo XIII on St. Thomas Aquinas
Upon A Picture of My Grandfather, Taken at Montevergine
“The Faith is Europe and Europe is the Faith.”
– Hillaire Belloc
Book Review: The Glories of Mary by St. Alphonsus Ligouri
“When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.”
– John 19:26
Book Review: The Aeneid by Virgil
“Be happy, friends; your fortune is achieved,
While one fate beckons us and then another.”
– Aeneid III. 655-656.
Book Review of Maistre: Major Works, Vol. I
“There is no disorder that ETERNAL LOVE does not turn against the principle of evil.” – Joseph de Maistre
Book Review: The Life of St. Gemma Galgani by Venerable Fr. Germanus, C.P.
“He often makes choice of those who seem to themselves the most unfit for the greatest achievements and chooses such as the world despises to confound the pride of the world.” – Bishop Richard Challoner
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