Prayers for Pope Francis
Pope Francis is in hospital, with what seems like bronchitis, even if his medical condition, and the severity thereof, is not made public, as...
Tattoo You?
An interesting factoid I recently came across, one borne out by anecdotal evidence, is that 3 out of 10 Americans now have tattoos, and...
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...
Words from the Cross
The final words of Jesus on the Cross at the last moments of his earthly life offer us demanding instructions for our prayers. Jesus,...
Christopher Dawson On Religion and Progress
Baptized Anglican, Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) during Easter of 1909 visited Rome where he experienced a mystical event and became a Roman Catholic at the...
The Persistent Virtue of Woman
A Canaanite woman . . . cried out, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a...
The Angelus and the Law’s Perfection
ANGELUS
St Peter’s Square, Sunday, 13 February 2011
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In this Sunday’s Liturgy we continue to read Jesus’ so-called “Sermon on the Mount”. It...
The Woeful Wages of the Winnipeg Statement
(On this anniversary of the doleful and ambiguous Winnipeg Statement by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, back in 1968, as their response to...
The Truth and Irony of Mercy
Irony may be described in one way as something happening, not that you don't want to happen, but that you don't expect to happen,...
Acedia and Total Amusement
We live in slothful times. I don’t mean to say that our age is uniquely lazy, however common indolence may happen to be. Modern...
