A True Thomistic Versus an Oddly Ockhamist Josephology
In one of the most recent and popular books on Saint Joseph called Consecration to Saint Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father, Father...
Life is Not a Fairy Tale
When a person gets everything that she wants, when she has all the things that she thinks she needs, and life is being wonderfully...
The Pope and the Death Penalty
At the climax of Luke’s passion narrative, we see Jesus hanging between two criminals. One of the criminals mocks Jesus, but the other responds,...
Frankenstein’s Creation
No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I...
Diversity, The First Person In The Triad Of The New Religion
Introduction
Diversity is esteemed to be an overarching good and a fundamental value such as love, prudence or justice, which are deemed always good irrespective...
Banishing Envy
The final words of today’s second reading, from Saint Paul’s letter to the Colossians, like their parallel in Galatians, are much resorted today:
Here there...
The Joyful Apostle of Rome
Today, May 26th, is the feast of one of my favorite saints, Philip Neri (1515-1595), born and raised in the renaissance city of Florence...
The Point of It All
There have been two tragic and public suicides in the news of late, which I have picked up on these pilgrimage travels, praying for...
Dumbing Down the Voting Age
I have an article published this morning in Crisis, on the necessity of reappropriating and reinstantiating beautiful liturgical music, which the Church describes as...
John Paul II at Lourdes
PILGRIMAGE
OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II
TO LOURDES ON THE OCCASION OF 150TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE PROMULGATION OF THE DOGMA
OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
HOMILY OF THE HOLY...
