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“You are in for a treat,” John Berky told me when he heard that Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra would be in the basilica church of Saint Vincent Archabbey to perform Anton Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony in D Minor. Berky is Executive Secretary of the Bruckner Society of America and edits the society’s web site [...]
Archaisms renew and renovate the language because it is the old things that make all things new. Here's my call for the preservation of endangered words: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/09/defense-archaisms-joseph-pearce.html
September/October - What is Wrong: Pride and the Fall of Modernity Sample Content from Our Latest Issue September/October 2019 Table of Contents Sample Article Turning a Blind Eye to the Murder and Rape of Christians - David Alton In 1896, at the age of 87, former British Prime Minister William Gladstone made his last public speech. It was [...]
“If I were giving a young man advice,” said Wilbur Wright, “as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio.” That advice certainly applied to his older contemporary, a fellow Ohioan and the twenty-fifth President of the United States, William [...]
Something occurred recently that provided me a better understanding of the difference between converts and so-called “cradle” Catholics. It was during a meeting of older parishioners, those groups commonly called by names like “Senior Catholics” or “Golden Agers” or “Young At Heart,” etc., groups where you might expect to hear laments of lost traditions. A woman [...]
I’ve just finished what is commonly called a “Netflix binge,” which means I watched an entire series of shows. The Story of God had a two-season tenure with some nine episodes in all. I was surprised to enjoy it. I had expected something like the kind of show I saw several years ago during the height [...]
With reluctance a monk opens this new book, a sleek, slim paperback having the appearance of appealing to the sepia-toned spirituality of people who see monks and nuns as living Hummels. “In this desolate world,” writes Nicolas Diat, a French journalist, “I had the idea to take the path of the great monasteries in order to [...]
Sixty years after the death of Raymond Chandler, and eighty years after the publication of his first novel, we mark the first anniversary of a brilliant achievement, The Annotated Big Sleep. In 1939, Chandler (1888-1959) published The Big Sleep, introducing a fictional Los Angeles private investigator, Philip Marlowe, and in 2018, Owen Hill, Pamela Jackson, [...]