Tag Archives: St. Francis

Interview — 040: Phillip Campbell on the Nitty Gritty of the Middle Ages, part 2

Download       Play in New Window Phillip Campbell joins us for part 2 of our conversation exploring the nitty gritty of the Middle Ages. In this conversation we will discuss lay control of the Church, Episcopal absenteeism, the failure of the two-sword theory; tournaments, jousts, trial by ordeal, whether peasants actually liked the days off as […]

Interview 018 – Chris Ferrara discusses Laudato Si

Download [Right Click]        Play in New Window Smaller/Mobile Version:             Part 1       Part 2        Part 3        Part 4 Today we are joined by Chris Ferrara, the president of the Catholic Lawyers Association, a well known Columnist for the Remnant, the author of The Great Façade, The Church and the Libertarian, and his magnum opus: Liberty: The […]

Interview 016 – dom Noah Moerbeek on the Poor Knights of Christ

Download [Right click]         Play in New Window Smaller/Mobile version:        Part 1          Part 2         Part 3           Part 4 Today we are joined by dom Noah Moerbeek, CPMO of the Milita Templi or Poor Knights of Christ. Noah talks about his order, what it is and what it is not as well as its spirituality. Moreover, Noah, […]

The Exorcism of Arezzo – Giotto

Today we turn away from the world’s troublesome events, and call our attention to the patrimony of culture in the Western Tradition. In past art posts I have focused mostly on the Baroque. Today, however, we go back to the very beginning of the Renaissance, to the great painter Giotto. One of the things that […]

St. Francis of Assisi

St. Francis is perhaps the universal saint of the universal Church. All of the circumstances of his life were directed, by divine providence, to conform completely to the life of our Savior. Here, I’m providing an excerpt from a book I reprinted, The Life of St. Francis of Assisi, by Candide Chalippe, OFM. It is […]

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