Dr. Robert Hickson 3 June 2022 Saint Clotilde (d. 545) West Point Graduation 58 Years Ago (Class of 1964) Maurice Baring on the Mystery of Mortal Beauty and the Supreme Sacrifice: The Lonely Lady of Dulwich(1934) Epigraphs *** “She was beautiful, in spite of looking listless and pale at the moment. Yes, she was beautiful,…
Dr. Robert Hickson 29 December 2021 Feast of Saint Thomas à Becket (d. 1170) Feast of King David the Poet and King (d. 973 B.C.) Also the Traditional Feast of the Holy Innocents (1 A.D.) Pope Pius V’s 1570 Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth and the New 1581 Jesuit Spirit: Hence “the Chivalry of Lepanto and…
A Note from the Authors on 24 June 2021 (the Nativity of St. John the Baptist): In late August 2012, now almost 10 years ago, while we were reading and discussing together candidly a variety of challenging books, my wife and I both considered a few recurring and connected insights in these counterpointed texts which…
Dr. Robert Hickson 5 April 2021 Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P. (d. 1419) Blessed Juliana of Mount Cornillon (d. 1258) Epigraphs “The enormous evils from which we are suffering, the degradation of our fellow-citizens, the accursed domination of our plutocracy is in the act of [a complacent? or temporarily acquiescent?] settlement. But after that? Will there…
Note: this essay has first been published at LifeSiteNews.com and is re-printed here with kind permission. by Dr. Maike Hickson Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has recently written a preface for a book, Gratitude, Contemplation, and the Sacramental Worth of Catholic Literature, a collection of essays written by my husband Dr. Robert Hickson over the course of…
Picture: Greek Architecture in Agrigento, Sicily (Pixabay) Dr. Robert Hickson …