Pope Francis and Conclave 2025: Still waiting for a Third-Millennium Pope
While it is true that our Catholic Faith is timeless, the Catholic Church seems to be stalled in the disasterous 20th Century.
Listen, and Take Heart: Music that Shines Through the Darkness
Our musical adventures this month will take us through the twenthieth-century to contemporary times. You need not fear. Despite the temporary triumph of cacophony for about half a century, beautiful music was written even under the siege of the avant-garde and is still being created today. I begin with the great good news that one of … Read more
How the Poles Saved Civilization, Part I
On a June evening in 1979 I was having a drink on a small balcony outside a sixth-floor apartment in downtown Warsaw with a very civilized, elderly Polish intellectual, a retired mathematics professor who had taken a degree at Cambridge between the two world wars and spoke a refined, witty, patrician English. Inside the apartment … Read more