March 17, 2024

I was lying in bed trying to come up with an original post to publish on St. Patrick’s day or International All Things Irish Day. I was tired from a day washing dishes and cutting up melons and my tiredness was wrestling with my insomnia. It’s obligatory don’t you know for a Catholic blogger with a Irish Catholic wife to come up with something new every year on St. Paddy’s day. I was sinking in the gloom of a blank... Read more

March 15, 2024

In my reflections on Cabrini Cabrini Was Awesome | A Catholic Movie Review Of Angel Studios Cabrini Movie. (patheos.com) I referenced several other people’s thoughts on the film. Here are some more thoughts. Leah Fisher And THIS is how I would have started the movie! SURRENDER TO JESUS (written by St. Frances Cabrini): “My loving Jesus, I enclose myself in You and surrender myself completely in Your loving Heart. Enlighten my mind with a ray of Your light, move my... Read more

March 13, 2024

On March 8, 2024, which is International Women’s Day, film fans clearly had a choice of few new movies they could go out to cinemas to see. They could return to Arrakis to see giant sand worms swimming through the planets desert dunes amongst galactic political sci-fi action in Dune 2. Tolkien’s dislike for Dune interests me partly because, while I’m fascinated by Villeneuve’s adaptations, reviewing them has proven a challenge, since I must try to articulate my appreciation of movies the... Read more

March 8, 2024

The 1st Academy Awards  The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from  August 1, 1927 to  July 31, 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Tickets cost $5 ($85 in 2022, considering inflation); 270 people attended the event, which lasted 15 minutes. It is the only Academy Awards ceremony not broadcast on either radio or television; a radio broadcast was... Read more

March 4, 2024

Last Time on HOARATS Braveheart’s Summa Comedy Polo- 13th And 14th Centuries | A Time Line Off Events In The 13th And 14th Centuries. (patheos.com) Giovanni Grevembroch– Marco Polo 15th Century 15th century: c. 1400 – c. 1500 – Oxford Reference Popes 204 – 214 reigned on the throne of St. Peter. 0 Saint Popes 0 Blessed Pope 11 Non – Sainted Popes 6 Anti – Popes 1 Interregnum These next two centuries featured the Explorers, Reformers & the inventors,... Read more

March 1, 2024

2024 March’s On. Here is what is coming up in the Lenten Month of March Friday March 1, 2024  Day 60: Intercessory Prayer — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube Day 60: God Sends His Only Son — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials. 1867 – Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state. 1872 – Yellowstone... Read more

February 29, 2024

Let’s Talk  About Mysteries. They permeate our lives and surround us with its mind-boggling addictive fog that makes us want ingest it into our minds and souls so that we want to unravel it so we can have have the satisfactory high of knowing the answer that is just hidden beyond our grasp. Two individuals have helped to quench the thirst for answers to the mysteries that walk the halls of history up and down the ages. Those individuals are... Read more

February 26, 2024

Last Time on HOARATS Schism, Crusades, & Green Children Of 11th & 12th Centuries | A Timeline Of Events In The 11th And 12th Centuries. (patheos.com) And Now we move on to the… 13th Century 13th century: c. 1200 – c. 1300 – Oxford Reference Popes  177 – 193 reigned on the throne of St. Peter. 1 Saint Popes 2 Blessed Pope 14 Non – Sainted Popes 0 Anti – Popes 2 Interregnum Most medieval wayfarers had never gone beyond... Read more

February 21, 2024

 11th Century 11th century: c. 1000 – 1100 – Oxford Reference Popes 140 – 160 had their pontificates in this time period. 2 Saint Popes 2 Blessed Pope 17 Non-Sainted Popes 4 Anti – Popes Why is it that we mainly remember the Middle Ages by absurd things? When we talk of something medieval, we mean something quaint. We remember that alchemy was medieval, or that heraldry was medieval. We forget that Parliaments are medieval, that all our Universities are medieval,... Read more

February 19, 2024

Last Time on Heck of a Ride Around The Sun Popes And Councils Of The 5th, 6th And 7th Centuries HOARATS  8th Century 700 – 799 Popes 85 – 96 4 Saint Popes 8 Non – Sainted Popes 1 Pope Elect c. 700 CE “Be Thou My Vision” (Old Irish: Rop tú mo baile or Rob tú mo bhoile) is a traditional Christian hymn of Irish origin. The words are based on a Middle Irish poem that has traditionally been attributed to Dallán Forgaill.  The best-known English version, with... Read more


Browse Our Archives