Audi Benigne Conditor: An Introduction to the Latin Poetry of the Church
Should it please the reader to explore the Church’s rich repository of Latin poetry, I shall gladly introduce you. Surely, it is a noble...
One Simple Thing Families Can do to Help Restore Unity in Our Countries
There’s so much talk in the news right now about how we can unite as a region at a time when we’re more divided...
Third Sunday of Lent: Thirsting for the True Water of Life
‘Give me a drink’ (Jn. 4:7).
The conversation of Our Lord and the Samaritan woman revolves around the gift of water. This request is presented...
Bishop Sheen and the Shocking Scandal of the Eucharist
Fulton Sheen’s beatification continues. And I’d like to draw attention to something he once wrote:, “The greatest love story of all time is contained...
Second Sunday of Lent, and Seeing Beyond Our Eyes
Are old people wise? Have they learned anything from experience? Or are they all curmudgeons, continually grumbling about the young generation and contrasting it...
Will the World Return to Religion? A Public Debate in New York City...
(This is a longer read from long-time contributor Carl Sundell, which may well be his swan song, even if we hope for more from...
How Byzantine Spirituality Speaks to the Contemporary West
Western culture is marked by a strange double-bind. It is interminably fast-moving yet restless, hyper-connected and yet crushingly lonely, materially comfortable and at the...
Pope John Paul II and the Chair of Peter
EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION WITH THE NEW CARDINALS
HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II
Thursday, 22 February 2001
Feast of Saint Peter's Chair
1. "'Who do you say that I am?'. Simon...
The Ministerial Priesthood and St. Maximillian Kolbe
Nothing is more doomed to failure than a layperson trying to tell the clergy what they ought to do. Well, perhaps if such a...
Remember Man, That Thou Art Dust…Pope Benedict and Ash Wednesday
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Ash Wednesday
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
On this day, marked by the austere symbol of ashes, we enter...
