Subscribe to Jasper. Man of the Day: The Hermit in the Desert The old man sat in his cave, cross-legged, with a broken loaf of bread on a platter in front of him, and a jar of wine. That was his usual fare for the day. But this time, for the sake of the company,...

Subscribe to Jasper. Curiosity of the Day: Cincinnati “I know what Cincinnati is!” you say. “It’s a city in Ohio, on the big Ohio River.” That’s true enough. But do you know why they called it Cincinnati, and not Losantiville, which is what the first settlers called it? We have to go back fifteen hundred...

Subscribe to Jasper. Word of the Day: WISE “Wise guy, eh?” shouts Moe, and gets Curly’s nose in the clamp of a pipe wrench, to give it a good hard twist – rrrrnk! What’s the difference between being WISE, and being SMART? When I was three years old, I taught myself how to read and...

Subscribe to Jasper. Man of the Day: The Man Who Saved the Past “Colonel,” said the aide, “your commands are clear. We have to shell the cathedral.” The scene was fifty miles away from Paris, the great capital of France. The countryside far and near showed all the signs of war: burnt fields, buildings falling...

Subscribe to Jasper. Word of the Day: FOIL “Joey,” says your mother, who has in her hands a big platter full of cinnamon rolls she has just taken from the oven, “could you fetch me a big sheet of aluminum FOIL, please?” “Sure, Mom,” you say, and you get the tube from the cupboard, you...

Subscribe to Jasper. Curiosity of the Day: Finding a Planet in the Sky “When I consider the work of your fingers,” says the psalm, “the moon and the stars which you have set in place, what is man that you should be mindful of him, or the son of man, that you should care for...

The Cardinal Newman Society recently published an article on their website highlighting Magdalen College Alumna Katelyn (Walker) Stumler ’08. The article begins: Katelyn Stumler was exposed to beautiful and reverent liturgical music while a student at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts in Warner, N.H., which is recommended in The Newman Guide. Now as the...

Subscribe to Jasper. Art of the Day: Saint Michael, in Lucca, Italy Thousands of people are standing in the square outside of the church. It’s a breezy day at the end of September, but warm and sunny, and everyone is in a holiday mood. Old women are murmuring prayers. Little children try to get loose...

Subscribe to Jasper. Story of the Day: The California Missions Mrs. Jackson sat on what used to be a part of a wall, around what used to be a garden. She had a notebook and a pen, and a keen memory. A green lizard darted out from a hole in the crumbling brick, caught a...

Subscribe to Jasper. Curiosity of the Day: ICE The doctor in the big city hospital wiped his brow, which was dripping with sweat. They were ten stories up from the ground, and all the heat of the city street below came up in waves. Sometimes he thought that the walls were shimmering, it was so...