Hard Sayings in Scripture
Geraldine Thompson, a Sister of Saint Joseph who taught English at Saint Michael’s College, Toronto, was utterly charming in person, . . . and...
Transfiguration Unto Divine Glory
A blessed and grace-filled feast of the Transfiguration to all our readers, where Christ allowed the Apostles - Peter, James and John - to...
The Flame of Love: The Spiritual Diary of Elizabeth Kindelmann
Elizabeth Kindelmann (1913 – 1985), a poor, Hungarian mother of six children, and a lay Carmelite, was widowed at the age of thirty-three. In...
Christmas—The Fullness of Love
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full....
Compassion is not cynical: a reply to David Bentley Hart on Annulment and Divorce
David Bentley Hart has recently suggested that the Eastern Orthodox practice of divorce is more coherent and compassionate than the Catholic practice of annulment.
The...
‘Adding’ the Saint Michael Prayer After Mass
(One of our most popular articles from the archives from a few years ago, but well worth a read or re-read on this feast...
The True Saint Augustine
St. Augustine’s legacy has fared so well not just because of his personal holiness and scholarly genius, but also because of the great ease...
13th Sunday: The experience of suffering
For God created man for incorruption, and made him the image of his own eternity, but through the devil’s envy death entered the world,...
Morality Without Religion?
Nobody can deny that there has to be a moral consensus about what is right and what is wrong in order to have a...
Who are the Workers in the Vineyard?
. . . the rabbis said: “Solomon had three thousand parables to illustrate each and every verse , and a thousand and five interpretations...