Embracing our Cross
If anyone wants to become my disciple, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me (Mt. 16:24).
As we continue our...
Who are the Workers in the Vineyard?
. . . the rabbis said: âSolomon had three thousand parables to illustrate each and every verse , and a thousand and five interpretations...
Faith Flicks: Sources of Inspiration or Despair?
It seems that there is something stirring in the movie-making business of late. Namely, religious themes are reappearing on the radar in a more...
The Raising of Lazarus
How old was Lazarus? Robert Browning, in a poem written in 1855âAn Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physicianâsuggests that...
Becoming Blind to Pornography on the Internet
âAnd if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life...
Can Popes be Heretics?
Is the Pope a heretic? should sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but is a charge that has been made by a...
Praying for and with All the Holy Souls
A blessed All Soulsâ Day to all our readers. Here is an article from our archives, which sums up the Church's tradition of praying...
Divine Mercy Sunday and the Pierced Side of Christ
âReach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believeâ⊠âMy Lord and my God!â (Jn. 20:18)).
Today is Divine...
Learning Death from History
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.Â
So declared the famed historian George Santayana in 1863, and there is a...
Patching the Chinese Schism?
Be wary in signing deal with atheistic Communists, Confucius might have said, had he lived another millennia or so, only to see his nation...
