Perhaps a first. A positive posting, about Democrat CA Governor Jerry Brown, using a story from leftwing Brit "news" service Reute...

I used to read, or chant, the Psalms a lot. For twenty years in the Book of Hours, twice a day at least, for Lauds and Vespers, often for ...

If there had not been The Fall, what do you bet that the word "palindrome" would be a palindrome?

Both George W Bush and Michael Novak share a common mistake. They believe in, to quote Novak's book title, " the universal hunger f...

A clever Brit agrees with me that the religious and puritan instinct is behind the obsession with health (and safety) in the West these days...

Hyper articulate bad-boy writer Jim Goad on the occupation of Wall Street by "Unemployed street poets, unemployed performance artists...

Ex Cathedra has not been in a good mood of late. I mean, even compared to my usual. Not at all. It dawned on me that in the past year and ...

T (my ex) and I often commiserate with each other about the things which piss us off, things which we obsessively tend to notice and which ...

In Jesuit-owned and operated America magazine, an editorial laments the loss of altar girls at the Phoenix cathedral, wondering aloud if s...

I was watching an episode of Kenneth Clark's terrific 1969 series, Civilisation . About Western Europe. Although he is focusing very muc...