Friday, November 21, 2025

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

Abstract Ā Are you an ā€œinvestigatorā€ or maybe a ā€œpeacemaker’ or someone who would be known as a ā€œhelperā€ or ā€œachiever?ā€ Maybe you are the enthusiastic...

John of God

Saint John of God, whose baptismal name was João Duarte Cidade, lived an incredible life: on the streets alone soon after the tender age...

Salvation is a Gift, to Those Who Seek It

For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save what the lost. (Lk. 19:10) ā§¾ The conversion of Zacchaeus may be said...

Thanksgiving Day

A blessed and joyful Thanksgiving to all of our readers! Even our American ones who, of course, hold their own day of thanks later...

The Last Easter Vigil Homily of Pope Benedict XVI

EASTER VIGIL HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI Saint Peter's Basilica Holy Saturday, 7 April 2012 Dear Brothers and Sisters, Easter is the feast of the new creation. Jesus...

Holy, or False, Innocence?

Marc Bauerlein has an insightful essay on false innocence in the recent issue of First Things, describing those who feign an innocence that, perhaps...

Praying for and with All the Holy Souls

A blessed All Souls’ Day to all our readers. Here is an article from our archives, which sums up the Church's tradition of praying...

Belloc’s Tarantella – and as Sung by Old Thunder Himself

Tarantella by Hilaire Belloc Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? Do you remember an Inn? And the tedding and the spreading Of the straw for a bedding, And the fleas...

The Reality of Saint John’s Eucharistic Symbolism

INTRODUCTIONĀ  The Gospel of St. John, unlike the Synoptic Gospels, offers no account of the institution of the Eucharist in his narrative of the Last...

The Easter Triduum According to Three Popes

At the end of Holy Week we celebrate the Easter Triduum, the days from the evening of Holy Thursday to the evening of Easter...