The Early Christian Writers on the Holy Trinity

As we are celebrating Trinity Sunday my mind and heart cannot not ruminate and contemplate the beauty of this outstanding mystery, the Holy Trinity,...

The Most Holy Trinity

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption to sonship....

The Holy Spirit, Leading us into All Truth

‘When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth’ (Jn. 16:13). ⧾ With the glorious Feast of Pentecost the seven...

Contemporary Despair and Misplaced Hopes

In good part because the rhetorical trick is quickly becoming hackneyed, I will not herein aver the existence of a “real pandemic” behind the...

Fundamentalism A, B and C

A.  The slogan of the Protestant Reformation was “sola Scriptura,” that is, a conviction that the Bible and the Bible alone contains God’s revelation to...

The Weak Little Bird: Saint Thérèse and Strangers and Sojourners

“How can a soul as imperfect as mine aspire to the possession of the plenitude of Love? O Jesus, my first and only Friend,...

The Joy of Felix of Catalice – Brother ‘Deo Gratias’

Today, Tuesday 18 May 2021, is the feast of the Capuchin lay brother St Felix of Cantalice (+1587). Certainly Brother Felix has been foundational...

Ascension, Church and Magisterium

When was the Church founded? Many would say that it emerged from the opened side of Jesus on the cross, like a new Eve from...

Fulton Sheen’s Thoughts for Daily Living

The Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) needs little introduction. At the peak of his radio and television popularity from the 1940s to the...

Trudeua’s Odiferous, Ominous Omnibus Bill

A good choice was made with Saint Matthias, in accordance with God's holy will, and we may rejoice accordingly on this feast of the...