"That quiet conversation was by far the most terrible thing that has ever happened to me in my life."G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a celebrated British journalist, detective novelist, artist and Catholic apologist. He wrote over one hundred books, thousands of newspaper columns, innumerable poems, a several plays. He gleefully debated society's intellectual luminaries such as George Bernard Shaw, H.G Wells, Clarence Darrow and Bertrand Russell. It is easy to estimate … [Read more...]

"The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to GOD. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in … [Read more...]

Author's Note: Please be advised that some of the pictures below have graphic material.  "When I think of the beaches of Normandy choked with the flowers of American and British youth and when, in my mind's eye I see the tides running red with blood, I have my doubts, Ike. I have my doubts." - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower on the eve of D-DayIt is hard to imagine these words were ever uttered by the jowly, defiant, … [Read more...]

 "Our hearts are with those in the front line, with those who get killed." - Georges BernanosIt is said that when Georges Bernanos was asked why he became a writer, he answered quite plainly,"I began to write to escape from this disgusting era". Alive for merely sixty years (1888-1948), the French Catholic Bernanos spent his life in Europe during the darkness of World War I and the Spanish Civil War . Subsequently, he endured the evisceration and emasculation of his homeland as an … [Read more...]

“I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.”—  - Adolf HitlerI had often sensed it. Yes I have. But Martin Buber plainly and expertly put it into words. While reading Emery de Gaal's brilliant theological/philosophical biography of Pope Benedict XVI, The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI: The Christocentric Shift, I came across the reference to Buber's 1923 influential work, I and Thou. I had never heard of it before. In it, Buber proposed a simpl … [Read more...]