Canceling Conservative Priests
Our world is becoming increasingly violent; a world where people are led and misled by half-truths, slogans and ideological clichés. This violence is directed...
Chrysostom, Siloam and Hurricanes
Saint John Chrysostom (+407), an ascetic and contemplative monk who wanted only to retreat from the turmoil of life in the Eastern empire, was...
The Psalms as Prayer
We hear a lot of the Bible at Sunday Mass. There are four readings every week, although the fourth one is usually ignored. Everyone...
Why Does Hell Exist?
“The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a...
Star of the Sea: Marian Devotion through the Prism of an Old English...
Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary has played an integral role in the tradition of Christian prayer since the early days of the Church,...
A Primer for Our Lenten Pilgrimage
‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11).
On Ash Wednesday we begin the observance of the holy season of Lent with...
Lynn’s Resurrection
The significance of today's Gospel, about doubting Thomas—came home to me in a special way on 1 January 1975 when I was informed of...
On the Jaws of Death and the Gates of Heaven
Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) was a Catholic convert, philosopher, and theologian whose deep thinking prepared him during his long life for fruitful meditations on...
Impurity to Insanity
Whither Purity?
“Canada is a sick country.” Tucker Carlson on the Yaniv case, July 2019
In a pair of columns in the National Post last month,...
The Flood, Arks, and Happy Monks
Fr. Scott Murray
A review of The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post Christian Nation
By Rod Dreher
Penguin Group USA, 269 pages, $34
After...
