Orate Fratres

After the fall of Rome and the limitation of Byzantine power to merely the old eastern Roman Empire, the Papacy found itself able to establi...

Check out this article from the Art of Manliness blog (a site well worth your reading time) regarding several men’s groups in recent histo...

No, the question does not refer to the lack of posts recently. The author of this blog is just getting a very busy month of work – and illne...

Michael Voris over at the Vortex is launching a series of videos on masculinity and he launches the series from my old men's group in M...

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,...