Saint John of the Cross: A Sound Teacher of True Love
Today, 14 December, we celebrate the feast of a great Spanish mystic, a friend and a co-reformer of the Carmelite religious family, namely Saint...
On Martyrdom and True Religious Freedom
Carl Sundell has a very a propos article today in Catholic Insight on the remarkable Frank Sheed (+1982), a Catholic lay apologist who emphasized...
Defining Virtue
In his Confessions, the brilliant St. Augustine tells his reader that he knows quite well what time is, until someone asks him to define...
What Can We Know About God, Anyway?
There are few things more dispiriting to a gregarious theology/philosophy nerd than a conversation stopper. I get it, not everyone wants to explore these...
Palm and Passion Sunday
And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom, and the earth shook, and the rocks were split...
The Eucharist, the Church, and Abortion
Introduction
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver has aptly said that "abortion is the central social issue of this moment in our national history â...
Mozart’s Et Incarnatus Est
Mozart's Great Mass in C Major, the 'Coronation Mass', Krönungsmesse - so called since it was a favorite of the imperial court, performed often...
Good Shepherd Sunday
Has any one of you ever been a shepherd? or even seen one? Do shepherds exist in contemporary North America? Nevertheless, we know instinctively...
Pope Benedict’s Last Holy Thursday
(Here is Pope Benedict's homily for April 5th, 2012, for the Mass of the Last Supper...one year before he made his own 'exodus' from...
Do Cats Go to Heaven?
(The Church in her official capacity does not speak much of animals, except in their relation to us humans. They donât have intrinsic ârightsâ,...
