The year is 1013, and we are in the castle of the Count of Altshausen, in Swabia. 

In 1943, there was an uprising against the Nazi occupiers in the Jewish ghetto in Częstochowa, Poland, which the SS quickly crushed, killing many Jews.

The problem with Christians, Charles Péguy (reportedly) once said, is that they don’t believe what they believe.  

Sentimentality comes in many forms, and one of them, nowadays the most prevalent, is the deliberate elevation of emotion over thought. 

My mama turns one hundred today. 

"I don't ever want to be a priest," I said to myself with conviction as my elementary school teacher handed out the Lenten "mite boxes" with the name and photo of a seminarian printed on one side. 

I once had the unenviable task of explaining to Thomas Howard what the alt-right is.

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." Benjamin Franklin" 

Friends are not usually mentors. 

"The courage of men is to command, so that no fear cause them to fail to order what should be done…" - Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics