Thursday, November 20, 2025

Enneagram in Spiritual Direction: Paganism, Modernism or Valuable Tool?

Abstract  Are you an “investigator” or maybe a “peacemaker’ or someone who would be known as a “helper” or “achiever?” Maybe you are the enthusiastic...

Sixteenth Sunday: Weeding Out the Mystery of Iniquity

The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world, and the good seed are the children...

Solzhenitsyn’s Century

When once a certain class of people has been placed by temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value,...

What King James Has to Say about the Lectionary

The current lectionary at Mass in Canada has been in use for nearly thirty years now; it was introduced in 1992. At that time...

Tales of Canterbury

(A re-posting of my reflections, nearly two years ago now, of my pilgrimage to Canterbury, in light of today's memorial to one of her...

The Catholic Conqueror, Charles Martel

(As Europe confronts the problems of mass immigration, especially from Muslim nations, with yet another deadly stabbing by a 'mentally disturbed' Afghan asylum seeker,...

The Entrance of Baptism

A BIBLICAL TEXT can become so familiar that we simply bypass statements that would ordinarily puzzle us. I’m thinking of an aspect of the...

Matthew, Save our Schools

Saint Matthew, the writer of the first Gospel, represents all those ‘called’ from sin, to the highest of virtues. We know little of his...

Twenty Third Sunday: The Cross, the Eucharist, and Eternal Life

‘Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple’ (Lk. 14:27). â§Ÿ This saying of Our Lord is very...

China: An Existential Threat

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul –Mao Zedong With Richard Nixon’s official visit to China in 1972,...