Why We Need Norman Rockwell
If there’s one thing the seemingly ever-lingering 'pandemic' has inflicted, it’s a strain on ordinary human interaction.
In November of 2021, when many long-closed museums...
What Is Life, Really?
We Christians continue to celebrate the gift of new life in the Resurrection of Jesus this and every Easter season. Much of the debate...
A Chiming Clock: Strengthening the Family with the Wisdom of St. Benedict’s Rule ...
As lockdowns continue and children and students are confined to attend school from home, increasingly it would seem, there is a need to structure...
Saint Caecelia, and What Church Music Should Be
Today is the feast of Saint Caecelia, a young virgin martyr in Rome, put to death either in the late second or early third...
The Humble Servant in the Lord’s Vineyard Goes to the Father’s House
After the great John Paul II, the cardinals elected me, a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord. I am consoled by...
Devotion to the Sacred Heart: Truth in Charity in Troubled Times
The designs of His Heart are from age to age, to rescue their souls from death, and to keep them alive in famine (Ps....
Setting Our Faces Like Flint and Bearing Fruit
“It was not you who chose me, says the Lord, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit...
Oprah vs Trump
Oprah Winfrey’s epic speech at the Golden Globe Awards is already old news but her star power is not.
The question remains: will she run...
The Grace of Advent with three Popes
With its First Sunday we begin the season of Advent, and the Catechism has this to say:
When the Church celebrates the liturgy of Advent...
Words Aren’t Weightless: A Poem
Words Aren’t WeightlessÂ
“Sticks and stones may break my bonesÂ
But words will never hurt me”
Tell that to the lasting tone of a stone
Their syntax sticks
My...
