The Virgin Mary versus the Gorgon Medusa
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Humility and Happiness
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The parable of the...
A Grave Problem
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Well, isn’t this awkward?
Recent reports from...
Cardinal Gibbons’ Cure for Atheism
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Losing Canada
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Royal was first erected in 1924, the Montreal
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Saint Paulinus of Nola
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
Saint Paulinus of Nola
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The Father of the Church to whom we turn our...
The Loneliness of the Whistleblower
When Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was crusading against the Vladimir Putin government by investigating one crime after another, she had imagined the damning headlines...
Wherefore, Brazil?
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual...
Lingua Apocalyptica
The biblical texts used at Mass towards the end of the liturgical year are certainly dramatic—with stars falling from heaven and the like—and, it...
Murder in the 33rd Degree: The Gagnon Investigation into Vatican Freemasonry
“We have the impression that through some cracks in the wall the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” Pope Paul VI,...