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Editor's Corner
The Dis-Proprotionate Burden of Lockdowns
Human life is much about prudence, the virtue that disposes practical reason to discern our true good in every circumstance, and to choose the right means of achieving it. (CCC, #1806). Prudence should take...
Editor's Corner
To the Catacombs with the Virtual Mass?
I read recently a comparison between early Christians forced underground to Mass in the catacombs, and modern Catholics relegated to Mass on the Ethernet (Internet?). It made me wonder: There may be some similarity, but...
Editor's Corner
Catholics and Earth Day
Filtering what comes through 'mainstream' media is good for one's mental and spiritual clarity these days. I try to avoid television, but caught a bit of the headlines last week sort of by accident...
Editor's Corner
Benedict the Beggar and Benedict the Pope
This day marks the anniversary of the death of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, (+1783), one of the oddest, but also the most attractive, of saints. His vocation, such as it was, was a unique...
Editor's Corner
The Limits of Mercy
A blessed Divine Mercy Sunday to one and all, a feast put in place by Pope Saint John Paul II, back in the Jubilee Year of 2000. Five years later, he would go to...
Editor's Corner
Easter Joy, Lockdown Loops, and Casting Out Fear
A continued blessed and joyous Easter to all our readers, on this second day of eight days of solemnities, each day an 'Easter Sunday' - then another month of the Easter season, until Pentecost,...
Articles
A Catholic Scientist Champions the Shroud of Turin
The 'Shroud of Turin', widely held as the very burial sheet of Our Lord, imprinted miraculously with the image of His own body, will be displayed on Holy Saturday, April 3rd. This is a...
Editor's Corner
Bishop Sheen and the Betrayal of Judas
Judas is an intriguing figure, perhaps not for the right reasons, but nonetheless, he's given to us in the Gospels for a reason - mysterious words, that end in what is in many ways...
