Hilaire Belloc and the Catholic Cultural Revival
Hilaire Belloc helped lead a Catholic revival in England that was hugely influential in the growth of the Catholic presence in the wider culture.
Hilaire Belloc helped lead a Catholic revival in England that was hugely influential in the growth of the Catholic presence in the wider culture.
E.F. Schumacher succeeded in popularizing Catholic social teaching in a way that far exceeded the limited success of Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton to do the same thing fifty years earlier.
Ngo Dinh Diem, the first President of South Vietnam, and JFK were both Catholics, though Catholics of very different persuasions.
Mother Mary Lange’s loyalty to the Catholic Faith and her tireless life of service to Christ and the Church He had founded was evident throughout her life.
It would be good for today’s Catholics to know more about Maurice Baring and to discover what they’ve been missing in their ignorance of his work.Â
The nineteenth century was a time of great Catholic revival in Europe and the Americas; and nowhere was this more evident than in France, particularly in six music composers.
During the reign of the Danish king Canute, a devout Christian, the Faith in England flourished.
A look at the controversial and complex relationship between C.S. Lewis and Roy Campbell.
Roy Campbell is mostly unknown today, but he once enjoyed fame and endured infamy—attacked bitterly by C.S. Lewis and defended vociferously by J.R.R. Tolkien.
St. Nicholas Owen was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, killed during the reign of King James I.
We need to recognize those lesser-known saints whose lives of heroic self-sacrifice have been forgotten, the heroes who helped build Christendom.
In the midst of a long but temporal defeat, Christians can find encouragement in glimpses of our final victory.
Trying to encapsulate the scope of Hilaire Belloc’s achievement in a brief essay is akin to trying to capture the immensity of the seas that he sailed in the finiteness of the flagons from which he imbibed.
With the death of St. Augustine Press founder Bruce Fingerhut, Christendom lost a great culture warrior.
As a young man, I was consumed by anger at the state of the world and hated those I thought responsible. Save me, Lord, from falling into that trap today regarding the Church.
The celebration of the Mass ad orientem is the orientation of man toward his true home in Heaven, pointing him in the right direction for the journey home.
One of the particular strengths of Father Elijah is the way in which O’Brien brings his eponymous hero to fully-fledged and fully-fleshed life.
Tim Powers, the author of “Declare,” stands out from the crowd of contemporary novelists because he is a faithful Catholic who has somehow managed to swim in the toxic mainstream without compromising his faith or principles.
Some authors and some books are not as well-known as they should be. This is indubitably the case with George Mackay Brown and his tour de force of a novel: Vinland.
Flannery O’Conner’s modus operandi as a writer was the employment of violence and the grotesque to shock her readers out of their somnambulant indifference to truth.