What is a Priest? Pope Benedict’s Final Exhortation
An excerpt to ponder, from Pope Benedict XVI's last Chrism Mass address to his fellow priests, back in 2012, less than a year before...
Sixth Sunday and the Keeping of the Law
If you choose, you can keep the commandments, and they will save you… has not commanded anyone to be wicked, and He has...
Benedict and The Baptism
SOLEMNITY OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD
BENEDICT XVI
ANGELUS
St Peter's Square
Sunday, 13 January 2008
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
With today's Feast of Jesus' Baptism the liturgical Season of...
Conservative Prudence?
I received a rather critical email in response to my last post on the Conservative capitulation, so thought I should clarify my, and hopefully...
Saint Teresa’s Dark Night
September 5th is the feast of St Teresa of Calcutta, this year on a Sunday, but a few words may be in order, as...
Thirteenth Sunday: Theodicy, God and Evil
For God created man for incorruption, and made him the image of his own eternity, but through the devil’s envy death entered the world,...
Saint Anselm’s Idea of God
“ontology” defined ~ the science of being
Some students are fortunate enough to have had a teacher who made all the difference in life. I...
Pope John Paul II and the Visitation
(Here is Pope Saint John Paul II's first homily for the feast of the Visitation, to close off his first Marian month as Pope,...
The Revolution, the Tricoleur, and the Tricoteuse 2.0:
(On this anniversary of the beginning of the French Revolution, July 14, 2020, I thought this article from our archives from the fiery pen...
The Dreadful but Hopeful Dream of the Two Pillars
Try to picture yourselves with me on the seashore, or, better still, on an outlying cliff with no other land in sight. The vast...
