
Sword in The Skull
The Works of Bradley Poole

A Life Update and an Apology
Easter is upon us at last. And I can think of no better time to come back from the dead.

Forgotten Feasts: Feast of The Precious Blood
This feast, unlike many of the others in this series, actually made it into the Universal Calendar for a time, before being suppressed,...

Maus and Motherhood: Laetare Sunday and Girls und Panzer
Concerning Womanly Virtue... and Tanks!

Forgotten Feasts: Feast of The Five Wounds
Popular devotion to the five wounds of Christ dates back to at least the early Middle Ages. Often, the wounds were symbolized by the...

Fighting Little Devils: Goblin Slayer and Spiritual Warfare
Warning: This show contains intense and violent imagery. Also, spoilers.

Forgotten Feasts: Feast of the Holy Shroud
As the Church continues her Lenten Meditation on the Passion of Our Lord, She presents before us for our contemplation the Burial Should...

The Heavenly Spouse: Fly Me to the Moon and the Transfiguration of Christ
Out-of-this-world Romance and the Longing of Our Hearts

Forgotten Feasts: Feast of the Spear and the Nails
As her children press on through their Lenten observance, Mother Church continues to meditate on the various aspects of Her Lord’s...

Monsters of the Imagination: The Devil and In/Spectre
The First Sunday of Anime Lent (Posted after long delay)

Forgotten Feasts: Feast of the Holy Crown of Thorns
As we begin the holy discipline of Lent, the Church once again calls us to contemplate the events and instruments of Our Lord’s Passion....

The Anti-Epiphany: A Reflection on Ash Wednesday
The day long awaited and dreaded is upon us. At the stroke of midnight, the noise and fury of Carnival comes to an abrupt end. “The...

Forgotten Feasts: The Feast of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ
Having recalled Our Lord’s Prayer and Agony in Gethsemane over His impending Passion, it is fitting that we should now have a taste of...

The Word Turned Upside Down
The Season of Septuagesima We Catholics are quite used to being out of sync with the secular world, especially when it comes to holidays....

Forgotten Feasts: The Feast of the Prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
One of purposes of Pope St. Pius X’s liturgical reform was to rescue the Masses of the temporal cycle (i.e. the Sundays of the year, the...

I Live!
Due to events beyond my control, this blog has been neglected for the last two months. That ends today! Explanation: My last post in this...

Authentic Transformation
Voting for the American Solidarity Party in the 2020’s

The Most Important Election Ever! … Again
The Long Con of American Politics

7 Hard Truths
That the Fathers and the Great Spiritual Writers all Agree on

Uzaki-Chan and the Hatred of Wholesome
The Short Anime Girl Who Triggered the Internet




















