Category: Culture
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A Fresh Look at Courtship
By a young Catholic layman attending Juventutem events There are many different opinions on courtship, and this is because it is concerned with actions and ethics, and is therefore a practical rather than a theoretical science. This means that there are some grey areas and people can rightly hold differing points of view to some…
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Why the Film Nefarious Is Atheists’ Nightmare
By Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP Blood-dripping walls and young girls talking netherworldly are not your cup of tea? Mine neither. But I was eager to see an atheistic doctor clinically try to persuade a possessed inmate that God and Satan don’t exist. This is why I heartily recommend watching Nefarious, the remarkable film directed…
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Picasso’s Guernica or, This Is Not A Corrida
The bombing of Guernica in northern Spain occurred on April 26, 1937. Picasso painted a picture after the same name, becoming a turning point in his career.
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Chaste Sleuths Win By Popular Acclaim
Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are sedately married rather, but more often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion.
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Tintin and the Secret of the Elusive Priests
Fictional Belgian reporter Tintin is possibly the most significant comic strip character due to his seminal influence over that pictorial genre worldwide.
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Bl. Noël Pinot, a Shepherd for Times of Trial
Frs Franck Labbé and A. de Malleray tell the story of the exemplary pastor who died wearing his priestly vestments.
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Unexpected 19th Century Catholic Revival
The Church of the 1800s entrenched itself in its traditions and doctrines in the face of liberalism, secularism, and nationalism.