Saints Blaise and Ansgar
Saint Blaise, a bishop of ancient Sebastea (now in Turkey), was also a physician, like Saint Luke, a healer of body and soul. And,...
Saint Bridget of Ireland
Saint Bridget of Kildare (451 – 525), who lived a century after Saint Patrick (385 – 461), and a century before Saint Columbanus (543...
The Charism of Saint John Bosco
The term 'charismatic' has an ambiguous meaning in the Church, invoking images of liturgical guitars, drums, emotional crescendos, and disconcerting glossolalia. In the Church's...
Can the Legionaries Truly Be Reformed?
The Legionaries of Christ are currently gathered for their General Chapter, held every six years. This is in accord with the principle of semper...
Entropic AI
Entropy may be described as the tendency of all things degrade, to move from order to disorder, from cosmos to chaos, from specificity to...
Thomas Aquinas: The Universal and Angelic Doctor
(Last year marked the 800th anniversary of the birth of Saint Thomas Aquinas, who came into this world on this January 28th, 1225. The...
Saint Angela Merici and the Ursulines
Saint Angela Merici (+1540) lived and died in Italy, growing up to adulthood during the tumultuous events of the early Reformation (she went to...
Anglicanism, Catholicism, Thomism and Ecumenism…
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth (Saint Thomas Aquinas, +1274)
If there is a...
Saint Francis de Sales and the Joy of Salvation
A few words on this feast of the patron saint of writers, as well as this week dedicated to Christian unity; Francis de Sales...
The Council, the Consistory, Liturgy and Life
We live as we pray, for we pray as we live. (CCC, 2725)
So it seems the Liturgy was taken off the agenda at the...
