Christ’s Way of Glory
My mother’s sons were angry with me,
they made me keeper of the vineyards,
but my own vineyard I have not kept. (Song 1:6)
For many...
What ‘Following the Science’ Really Means: The Limits of Medicine and Moral Freedom
If there is one thing that is omnipresent in empirical research, it is doubt.
This line has always stuck with me, from a methodology textbook...
Eighteenth Sunday and Setting Our Sights On What is Above
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden...
Homily of Pope John Paul II on the Sacred Heart on His Journey to...
(This may bring back memories for some readers, of the apostolic visit of the great Pope from a by-gone era. Canada of 1984 was...
The Ever-Worn Shroud of Conscience
“If a man has made up his mind that a certain wrong course is the right one, the more he follows his conscience, the...
Tattoo You?
An interesting factoid I recently came across, one borne out by anecdotal evidence, is that 3 out of 10 Americans now have tattoos, and...
Palm and Passion Sunday
And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom, and the earth shook, and the rocks were split...
The Ballad of the White Horse: An Epic for the Ages
For years, friends urged me to read The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton, which I proceeded to put on the back burner for...
Pope Saint John Paul II’s Last Passion Sunday
(This is the last of Pope Saint John Paul II's Passion-Palm Sunday homilies, given in 2004, before his own passion and death the following...
Ritual and Boredom
More times than I can count I have been told by young men and women that they do not attend Mass because they find...
