Orate Fratres

Sex education should begin early in life – and by sex education, I mean real sex education. The kind of sex education our children are taugh...

Is it possible for Hollywood to produce a patriotic movie? In the case of the new Captain America: The First Avenger , yes – but that doesn’...

For a wonderful source of information on Catholic theology, philosophy, and history, head on over to the Institute of Catholic Culture . The...

Read the short essay Philia Love and the Liturgy on The Essays of Orate Frates. In my previous essay Ordering Freedom and the Four Loves ,...

Since this blog was launched, there have beeen some short posts and some essay-length posts. The nice thing about blogs is that they should ...

It can be said that pacifism is the renunciation of violence. If Jesus said that those who live by the sword die by the sword, then why not ...

Visit the Essays of Orate Frates to read this short essay on ordering freedom and the four Greek loves. In short, the essay seeks to offer ...

Few men are capable of captivating an audience with wise words and wit, a sharp intellect and stirring rhetoric. America, however, was gifte...

The Medal of Honor tends to be a posthumous award. Army Ranger Sgt. First Class Leroy Petry, however, became the second man since Vietnam to...

In the last five hundred years man traded living in a world with few political freedoms but much meaning for a world with many political fre...

Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order (volume one) is a rich source of information for those who want to understand the historical ...

In the year 476 AD, the Roman world collapsed under the weight of internal decay and external barbarian invasion and replaced with the world...

Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of The Pentagon’s New Map , has many great ideas concerning the connection between military defense and economic...

Modern Americans have been taught to worship rights and unlimited freedom as the highest and greatest goods. Nevertheless, well meaning Amer...

It was troubling to hear that Cardinal George preferred to withdraw his suspension of Fr. Pfleger rather than hold his ground against a reck...

As we all know, the Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman famously said that “to be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.” The same s...

Sometimes the wisest words are spoken by fictional characters. In the Lord of the Rings , Gandalf offers the following words of wisdom to t...

What Pope Benedict XVI calls "the most important day of my life" was his priestly ordination on June 29, 1951, 60 years ago tomorr...

In speaking the Sacrament of Holy Orders, the Catechism of the Catholic Church opens the discussion of the name “Holy Orders” by telling us...