Taurus Necrus

Throwing Away the Godfather This morning I was distracted and oppressed in my prayers by certain wandering thoughts which had enough of good truth mixed in that I could not quite depart from them, as Mr. Hilaire Belloc says of heresies. Then, in the second decade, the midst thereof, I went to my bookshelf and […]

This is the first chapter in my rewrite of Marcus Woodward, my first published novel, which I destroyed for sins. March 1st, 2342 Marcus Woodward awoke gently, like a man pretending to sleep, his eyes closed but his reason fully activated, and then his eyes coming open to find darkness that was impersonal to the […]

I have built a shed on a slope because I am acquiring swine for which to produce and sell pork to my local parish, and these swine require much food and water. But as for food, it is difficult to haul in measured, large amounts every day, and water in unmeasured amounts is even more […]

The Island of Two Trees Overall, it has an innocent and modern feel, with references such as “spandex” that are unlikely to negatively affect children, unless you have raised them in homemade habits, as I know some have. But by innocent, I mean that the author draws the children from a modern life towards a […]

2) Description 2) Sense It would be good to speak of sense, and this is an expansion of the topic of description. Previously, I spoke of description so far as to usage, that it ought to expound or further or reflect the plot, and I held up Chesterton. It operates then as a particular mode, […]

Saint Damian of Molokai – Born January 3rd 1840, Died April 15th 1889 Born in Belgium named Joseph de Veuster He was a friar in a religious order, the Society of the Sacred Hearts, considered ignorant, came from a peasant family and preceded in the order by his older brother. Europe at this time had […]

Saint Ferdinand  – Born 1198, died as Confessor on 30th of Mary, 1252 In the traditional images of the liturgical seasons used by Dom Prosper Gueranger, the season of Christmas has the Emperor Charlemagne depicted as guarding over the manger of our Lord, with his imperial crown and “a sword in his fearless hand”. In […]

Saint Maximilian Kolbe – Born Jan 8, 1884, received his crown 1941                 Saint Maximilian Kolbe was born in 1894, at a very interesting time in Church history and Polish history, where he was born. At the time, the Church was under major attack by the Freemasons, and Poland was subjugated by Russia, Prussia, and […]

Our Lord says that He will grant to those who overcome to eat of the tree of life, which grows upon the riverbank of His Kingdom, and the leaves of this tree are for the healing of the nations. I think it is a good time to explain my thoughts on nation and ethnicity. These […]

3) Against the Bill of Rights Against the Bill of Rights & American Freedom Mr. Kendall, you begin your essay with a lengthy technical discussion of the circumstances in which the Bill of Rights came to be amended to the Constitution. This is something of a marker for Conservative thought. It seems to me that […]