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Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor – On Guitar

I wouldn't have thought it could be done, but for our musical selection this Sunday - after a respite from these - here is Tariq Harb playing J.S. Bach's famous Toccata and Fugue in...

arkness yields before the coming of the light, and grace exchanges legalism for freedom. But midway between the two stands today’s mystery, at the frontier where types and symbols give way to reality, and...

The Deleterious Ecclesial Effects of Markan Priorism

Here is some food for thought, from Catholic author Jerome D. Gilmartin, on the deleterious effect of the 'Markan priorist' hypothesis - that Mark wrote the first Gospel, rather than Matthew, as is the...

Eunuchs for the Kingdom and the Three ‘C’s’ of Sexuality

I have an article out in Catholic World Report on what Christ might mean by becoming 'eunuchs for the kingdom', which at first hearing sounds like a bit of a downer, if not impossible,...

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. (Saint Teresa of Calcutta, +1997)

To the teacher who informed her that there was no saint bearing her name: "Very well, I will be a saint.  I will provide a patron for those who bear my name." (Blessed Dina...

Have confidence in the compassion of our Creator. Reflect well on what you are now doing, and keep before you the things you have done. Lift up your eyes to the overflowing compassion of...

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. (G.K. Chesterton)

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