Articles by vmntblog

Brave sons of Mark, ye lion-hearts: today high heaven here imparts in scarlet splash and broken brown the splendid and unfading crown. No earthly branches […]

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone; they paved paradise The trophies of the Apostles and […]

Dear readers, I hope you enjoy the following poem, another heroic crown of sonnets; above all, I wish you and your families a blessed Christmas! […]

I’ve found a fascinating irony. As an American son of Philippine immigrants, I’ve heard the ubiquitous lament of my parents’ generation that their children (my […]

NOTE: This article presumes familiarity with the Tradinista Manifesto. Please read that manifesto entirely before proceeding here. I deliberately titled this post de Tradinistis not […]

Direct forays into American politics are never the preferred focus of these pages, but I believe the extraordinary circumstances of 2016 justify such an excursus. […]

In a recent digital clameur de haro (02 June 2016), Chase Padusniak begins: Although he does not name his accuser, Chase refers to me.  I am the […]

This is part one of a five-part series on the female diaconate in the Catholic Church. The following four parts in this series will examine […]

What toil lies behind the production of even one glass of good wine! A host of favorable conditions‒ geographical, geological topographical, atmospheric– must coincide to […]

I present a new heroic crown of sonnets. Shoutout to the the fantastic @hanmariams, whose epic patience and wonderful sarcasm provided material and inspiration for […]

The addressee of the following verses has seen them in advance and does not object its public release; thus, I now present this heroic crown […]

Holy Thursday What a flash of glory is Holy Thursday! After the austerity of our Quadragesimal pilgrimage, we see a return, all too brief, of […]

For those whose liturgical sensibilities find a welcome haven in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, there is an overwhelming sense of comfort which […]

I like Chase Padusniak. His Patheos-hosted blog Jappers and Janglers is often for me a welcome break from the theological-liturgical polemics, couched in strictly ecclesial […]

This is a subject on which I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but certain occupational commitments in a foreign country have forced me […]

By now, the whole world has seen the host of appalling videos concerning the gruesome practices of Planned Parenthood. This poem is my response to the […]

Frequent readers of these pages know that I am a traditional Catholic; I therefore find myself, more often than not, in accord with Jeff (of Traditional Roman Catholic Thoughts; […]

On 4 July 2015, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI received two honorary doctorates honoris causa from the Pontifical University John Paul II and from the Krakow […]

To be sure, I intended the above photo to be a bit provocative, and it has already provoked reactions, some of which I didn’t expect. When […]

To call Laudato si’ an ambitious document is a severe understatement; Pope Francis latest encyclical on “the care of our common home” weighs in at a […]