Tagged: Humor

A Queen of Men

Book VII Ethandune: The Last Charge from G.K. Chesterton’s “The Ballad of the White Horse” puts before our eyes the vision King Alfred has of Our Lady standing over the battlefield just when he...

Eutrapelia

It’s the “twinkle in Pa’s eyes,” as Laura Ingalls would say; it’s the laughing at our own fool selves; it’s that spirit for which Saint Philip Neri is so well-known; it’s what Aristotle called...

Is There Still Valour?

St. Margaret of Scotland What is the main premise of Christianity that Modernism attacks?  James V. Schall, S. J., lays it bare in all its simplicity in this excellent essay, “Hope Beyond Thy Sight,”...