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The world unfurls its flag of toleration,issues its edicts of equality,and he who bears the sign of our salvationis banished as a public enemy.As Athanasius, when the world awoketo...

I love to see the leaves arrive,the new green spangling the blue,when branches, struggling alive,remake my window’s skyward view;or, looking down, to see the soilpierced by the grassy vanguard’s...

They told us that we lost our lofty placewhen Galileo shattered Ptolemy’sconcentric spheres, hurled Earth into the seasof ever-growing, godless outer space.They told us that the precious human raceoriginated...

The tourists traipse; the sights go by, a blur of cramped and cobbled streets where faux cafés and sellers of souvenirs administer the sacraments of our despairing days. Four-hundred-year-old...

Hard words, Lord Christ! For what good fruits bear I? For all your care and tending, what my yield? You gave me to a garden well concealed and watered...

“At the thought of God my heart leaps for joy, and I cannot help my music doing the same. n ”Joseph Haydn n If God were only Wisdom-born-of-Power, and...

Consider the fierce stone features of its face a vaccination of demonic strain, a backfire lit on purpose to contain hell’s wildfire outside this glade of grace. For if...