The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course. (Saint Boniface, +754)
These African martyrs herald the dawn of a new age. If only the mind of man might be directed not towards persecutions and religious conflicts but towards a rebirth of Christianity and civilisation! (Pope...
(Here, should it prove in any way useful, is a letter I wrote to my own local township on their decision to exhibit the 'pride' flag. Oddly, the motion to fly the actual flag...
On thisĀ feast of the Visitation, the last day of May, here are two musical renditions of the Magnificat, which Mary says - sings? - in today's Gospel:
The first, J.S. Bach's magnificent rendering of Our...
Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little...