God created beauty for the life of the soul. It has no corporal usefulness. It does not satisfy hunger, shelter us from a storm or provide warmth. For the life of the body, it is perfectly useless. However, beauty is more useful than food, shelter and warmth. This is because beauty is … Read more
Journalist Julia Duin published in The Washington Times a summary of the essential dates of Western civilization selected by Diane Moczar, a specialist in medieval history at the Northern Virginia Community College. The list is found in Prof. Moczar’s book, Ten Dates Every Catholic Should Know. She deplores the fact that Catholics … Read more
It is not often that one reads a book like Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society—Where We’ve Been, How We Got Here and Where We Need to Go. Author John Horvat II presents an overview of the crisis inside modern economy and society and sketches a luminous … Read more
This essay complements one (“Foreboding Appearance of Something Going Very Wrong”) posted on this site three weeks ago. While teaching a class on the immorality, softness and social decay that contributed to Roman imperial decline, the author noticed a similarity to conditions in contemporary United States. Here we have the destruction of … Read more
The course of history, contrary to the claims of so many philosophers and sociologists, is not traced exclusively or preponderantly by the dictates of matter over men. Without a doubt these have their influence in human action but the direction of history belongs to men, endowed as they are with free and … Read more
A review of The Audacity of Hops: The History of America’s Craft Beer Revolution by Tom Acitelli (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013) * * * In the world of mass standardization, the American beer industry stands out. Its gigantic breweries have dominated market share and undiscerning palates for decades. In 1975, some 50 … Read more
A Review of Escape From Camp 14 Escape From Camp 14 is a modern-day horror story that spans 224 pages revealing the atrocities of the atheistic communist North Korean regime. Its facts are related by one of the few escapees who lived, Shin Dong-Hyuk. The testimony of a former inmate of the … Read more
Below is a link to twelve shocking quotes that expose the homosexual movement’s goal for marriage. The authors of these quotes are professors and writers who are pro-homosexual activists at the forefront of the sexual revolution. The utter destruction of the institution of marriage, the end goal of the homosexual movement, becomes … Read more
In the placid waters of this canal of the Belgian city of Ghent, the facades of some buildings typical of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance have been reflected for centuries. These buildings create a singular architectural impression of balance because of the harmonious contrast between their imposing, serious and solid mass, … Read more
Following the election by the cardinals in Rome of the new Pontiff, Francis I, the American TFP sent His Holiness a letter beseeching Divine Providence to protect his ascension to the Papal throne, as well as thousands of petitions gathered during the conclave. March 15, 2013 VIA FACSIMILE … Read more