Saint Anthony and the Spirituality of the Desert
Sunday 17 January 2021, is the liturgical feast of St Anthony of Egypt or Anthony the Great. In the words of Pope Francis when...
Ordination and Marriage in Hitchcock’s ‘I Confess’
(This analysis of Alfred Hitchock's film noir classic 'I Confess' offers some key insights, but, as a caveat, also gives away elements of the...
Almsgiving in the Twenty-first Century
“Grace builds on nature.” (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
This statement from Saint Thomas’s Summa expresses in succinct form the theological insight that creation and redemption are...
The Holy Mass Part II: What God Does for Us, and What We Do...
This Sunday’s reflection is the second in a series of meditations on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, with specific references to the Ancient...
Dr. Hawking’s Pi
Today is Pi Day, the third month and 14th day, signifying of course 3.14, the first digits in the ratio of a circle's circumference...
The Persistent Virtue of Woman
A Canaanite woman . . . cried out, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a...
Luther’s Fateful All Hallowed Eve
(Here is a re-post of a reflection on this 'All Hallow's Eve' anniversary of the generally accepted date for the formal start of the...
General Audience on Saint Robert Bellarmine
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Saint Robert Bellarmine
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Born on 4 October 1542 in Montepulciano near Siena, he was...
The Queenship of Mary, All Holy and All Good, and, then there’s Justin…
A blessed memorial of the Queenship of Mary, a feast formally instituted by Pope Pius XII on October 11, 1954, in his encyclical Ad...
The New Lepers?
(I have an article coming out on the scientific method - how we develop 'models' to explain the universe, either in some small way...
