Hilaire Belloc: Prophet for Our Times

"Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine / There's always laughter and good red wine / At least I've always found it so / Benedicamus Domino!"

Immortal quotes such as this one have kept readers returning again and again to the voluminous works of Hilaire Belloc, not only for his sharp wit and scathing social and cultural critiques, but also for spiritual consolation and biographical portraits of the great figures of modernity.

Knowing that Belloc has many things to tell us today, Father C. John McCloskey, Scott Bloch and Brian Robertson have compiled some of his best quotes and put them into a new book, "The Essential Belloc: A Prophet for Our Times" (St. Benedict Press).

How to recognize the future Pope since the announcement of his first name

“Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum;
Habemus Papam:
Eminentissimum ac Reuerendissimum Dominum,
Dominum (first name),
Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem (surname),
Qui sibi nomen imposuit (name as Pope)”.


Albertum Milcolumbum (Ranjith)
Aloysium (Martínez Sistach)
Aloysium Antonium Gochimum (Tagle)
Andream Armandum (Ving-Trois)
Angelum (Amato, Bagnasco, Comastri, Scola)
Anscarium Andream (Rodríguez Madariaga)
Antonium (Naguib)
Antonium Mariam (Rouco Varela, Vegliò)
Antonium Olubunmium (Okogie)
Attilium (Nicora)
Audrym Iosephum (Bačkis)
Augustinum (Vallini)
Basilium Isachum (Tottunkal)
Becharam Petrum (Raï)
Casimirum (Nycz)
Christophorum (Schönborn)
Claudium (Hummes)
Crescentium (Sepe)
Curtium (Koch)
Danielem Nicolaum (DiNardo)
Dominicum Ieroslavum (Duka)
Donaldum Gulielmum (Wuerl)
Dionysium (Tettamanzi)
Dominicum (Calcagno)
Eduinum Fridericum (O’Brien)
Emmanuelem (Monteiro de Castro)
Ennium (Antonelli)
Ferdinandum (Filoni)
Franciscum (Coccopalmerio, Monterisi)
Franciscum Eugenium (George)
Franciscum Xauerium (Errázuriz Ossa)
Francum (Rodé)
Gabrielem (Zubeir Wako)
Georgium (Alencherry, Pell)
Georgium Liberatum (Urosa Savino)
Georgium Marium (Bergoglio)
Gerardum Maiella (Agnelo)
Godephridum (Danneels)
Gualterium (Kasper)
Gulielmum Iacobum (Eijk)
Gulielmum Iosephum (Levada)
Iacobum (Cañizares Llovera)
Iacobum Lucam (Ortega y Alamino)
Iacobum Michaëlem (Harvey)
Ioachim (Meisner)
Ioannem (Bráz de Aviz, Dias, Lajolo, Njue, Sandoval Íñiguez)
Ioannem Aloysium (Cipriani Thorne)
Ioannem Aloysium Petrum (Tauran)
Ioannem Baptistam (Brady, Pham Minh Mân, Re, Tong Hon)
Ioannem Claudium (Turcotte)
Ioannem Francum (Ravasi)
Ioannem Olorunfemium (Onaiyekan)
Ioannem Patricium (O’Malley)
Ioannem Petrum Bernardum (Ricard)
Iosephum (Bertello, Betori, Bozanić, Cordes, Versaldi)
Iosephum Franciscum (Robles Ortega)
Iosephum a Cruce (Policarpo)
Iulium (Terrazas Sandoval)
Iustinum Franciscum (Rigali)
Karolum (Amigo Vallejo, Caffarra, Lehman)
Laurentium (Pasinya)
Leonardum (Sandri)
Leonem (Burke)
Marcum (Ouellet)
Maurum (Piacenza)
Nicolaum a Iesu (López Rodríguez)
Norbertum (Rivera Carrera)
Odilonem Petrum (Scherer)
Osualdum (Gracias)
Paulum (Romeo, Sardi)
Petrum (Erdö)
Petrum Kodwonem Appiah (Turkson)
Philippum Xauerium (Barbarin)
Polycarpum (Pengo)
Radulphum Eduardum (Vela Chiriboga)
Rainerium Mariam (Woelki)
Raphaëlem (Farina)
Raymundum (Damasceno Assis)
Reinardum (Marx)
Robertum (Sarah)
Rogerium Michaëlem (Mahony)
Rubenium (Salazar Gómez)
Sanctos (Abril)
Seuerinum (Poletto)
Stanislaum (Dziwisz, Rylko)
Tarcisium (Bertone)
Telesphorum Placidum (Toppo)
Theodorum Hadrianum (Sarr)
Thomam Christophorum (Collins)
Timotheum Michaëlem (Dolan)
Velasium (de Paolis)
Vilphridum Foxium (Napier)
Vinkum (Puljic)
Zenonem (Grocholewski)