Trobadourism: The Idolization of Romance and Its Decadent Consequences, Past and Present
“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
– William Shakespeare
Tag: Middle East
Book Review: The Making of Europe by Christopher Dawson
“For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.”
– Pericles, “Funeral Oration”
Book Review of A General History of the Christian Era: Vol. I The Papacy and The Empire by Fr. Antony Guggenberger, S.J.
“Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have learned of their fathers: For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need.”
– Ecclesiasticus 8:11-12
Book Review: The Age of Martyrs by Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti
“Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.”
– Psalm 96:12
Book Download: The Greek Fathers by Father Adrian Fortescue
What they defended was the Catholic faith that we profess. We, who are the heirs of so great a tradition, ought to know at least something about the story of the long chain that joins us back to the first Whitsunday.
Book Review: History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky
“Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
– 1 Peter 2:17
Prester John
“Put not your trust in princes: in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.”
– Psalms 145:2-3
Book Review: Refutation of the Koran by Br. Riccoldo of Monte Croce, O.P.
“Once you have carefully read this confutation of Brother Riccoldo, then you will learn for the first time how empty this religion is, how worthless, how lacking in substance; and how it has nothing of importance to say for our present day.”
– Bartholemaeus de Monte Arduo to Ferdinand II of Aragon