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Samuel Huntington’s civilizational fault line dividing Africa's Islamic north from the sub-Saharan south ran through one nation in part...

Mary boasts the greatest status among all creatures for she is truly the Mother of God. But to this status, Mary says: Ecce, Fiat, and Magn...

Dr. Brendan McGuire gave a wonderful free series of lectures on the Crusades over at the Institute of Catholic Culture. In one part of his...

Until the sexual revolution of the 1960s, America was a traditional culture and its character expressed the natural outgrowth of Greek thoug...

Below you will find a six-part video series on Marian Femininity presented by Dr. David Pence:

It's been nearly a decade since Mel Gibson's We Were Soldiers - which means it's been nearly a decade since a good war movie ha...

Diocletian, the Roman Emperor to end Rome’s third century crisis in imperial succession, is known best by Catholics for the launching last ...

"The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork." -Psalm 19:1, King David

The Essays of Orate Fratres now includes my new review of Dinesh D'Souza's book The Enemy at Home . In the book he offers a much b...

Did you know that the first gift jolly old St. Nick was best known for was his fist? Yes, it was St. Nicholas the bishop who got to land a s...

In the book The Enemy at Home , author and debater Dinesh D’Souza speaks of what he calls the “cultural imperialism” of the secular left. In...

The Wall Street Journal had an interesting map of Africa (see below) late last month which Thomas Barnett commented on in his blog . As he...

Back in 1860 as the United States was entering the Civil War, the southern states formed a Confederacy in which each state was in essence it...

The videos for Dr. Pence's six-part series on Marian femininity versus modern feminism is coming closer to completion with the addition ...

The PowerPoint will never be the same after Thomas P.M. Barnett. In the time following 9/11, Barnett began using his presentation, or brief,...

St. Lawrence of Brindisi was named Julius Caesar by his father - but little did his father know how close his son would live up to the name,...

Dr. William Marshner has once again given an excellent FREE audio series through the Institute of Catholic Culture. While an earlier post ...

In logic, terms become the smallest building blocks of arguments. A term is any word or phrase that denotes a commonly known concept. Now b...

As promised by the trailer (which I included in an earlier post ), the show delivers breathtaking imagery from around the Catholic world whi...

Followers of Orate Frates may have watched the videos on the left side of the blog page. If not, please do so. The audio comes from Dr. Pen...