Monday, December 15, 2025

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The Last Easter Homily of Pope Benedict XVI

(Last words are always - or almost always - indicative, and one could reach much into these words of Pope Benedict XVI on his last Easter Vigil as Pope. The light cannot be extinguished,...

Three Easter Musical Gems

As we begin this Easter Octave with the great Solemnity of Easter itself, music to lift the soul would be one of Bach's Easter cantatas, composed during his time at Leipzig in the early...

Good Friday and Suffering

Evil and pain is always a mystery, that whole mysterium iniquitatis, of which Saint Paul writes (2 Thess 2:7). In 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II penned an Apostolic Letter on the nature and...

Good Friday Musical Meditations

Popule Meus, by Tomas Luis de Victoria, Christ's lament from the Cross, 'My People, what have I done to you, or in how have I offended you? Answer me!' https://youtu.be/bH8t5BKI7Qg The Reproaches, also by Victoria, who wrote...

Digital Dopplgangers

Here we go, with another 'leap' in the A.I. revolution, digital copies being made of products, factories, towns, villages, animals and, ambitiously, of ourselves, our organs, even the entire universe: https://www.noemamag.com/a-digital-twin-might-just-save-your-life/ I'm not sure about digital...

Princess Kate

Katherine Middleton, Princess of Wales, as readers are likely aware, has just made a moving public announcement that she is suffering from cancer.  She speaks stoically, but there must be much emotion behind the...

John Paul II and Passion Sunday

"Christ became obedient for us even to death, death on the Cross. Therefore God raised him on high and gave him a name above every other name" (Gospel acclamation). We have used these words of...

The Creeping Totalitarianism of Bill C-63

Justin Trudeau and his 'Justice' Minister, Arif Virani, are doubling down on Bill C-63, purported to make the internet a 'safe place for children'. Violations of their strict censorship laws - which include anything...

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