How to Receive Gifts, by František Nepil
(translated by Peter Hala)
So you see, it’s Christmas again, as if one painted it. Above all, you are smarter and wiser. Now you know...
Christmas, 2020
What is God like? The Bible itself answers the question if we examine it carefully. The first thing that struck me as I reflected...
From the Desert
Nevertheless,
God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the
wilderness (1 Cor. 10:5).
These sobering words from our epistle...
Dr. Frances Kelsey and Thalidomide
On this August 7th, back in 1962, Frances Oldham Kelsey, a Canadian-American physician/pharmacologist (who hailed from bucolic and beautiful Cobble Hill, on Vancouver Island,...
The Neo-Pagan Limits of the Olympics
The much-awaited Olympics is now upon us in Rio, a city in a country in a continent mired in unmanageable debt and corruption. Surrounded...
The Grace of Divine Mercy
On Sunday 24 April 2022, the Second Sunday of Easter, we celebrate the Divine Mercy Sunday. During the 1930’s St Maria Faustina Kowalska received...
Reading the Letter to the Philippians
Father Joseph Koterski, S.J.
One of the distinctive traits of each letter by Saint Paul is his pattern of emphasizing some significant aspect of the...
Amoris Laetitia, Mortal and Grave Sin
A rather stark and sobering teaching of the Church is that everyone of adult age on the face of this good Earth, and that...
Nicholas Ludford: A Forgotten Master of English Polyphony
Among the composers of Renaissance England, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are easily the best known, but they are not the only composers to...
Parents beware: The effects of teaching same-sex attraction during pre-adolescence
(At the request of the author, we are re-posting this reflection by Leeda Crawford from September 2010, sage advice for parents with children in...
