Queenship of Mary
The 22nd of August of the feast of the Queenship of Mary, which this year falls on a Sunday, one week after the Assumption....
The Voice and the Dawn
“So he said, 'I am, as Isaiah prophesied: A voice of one that cries in the desert: Prepare a way for the Lord'” (Jn 1:23).
“He was...
Christianity, Islam and Atheism
The Arab world before Mohamed was dominated by a polytheism that was slowly evolving toward monotheism. That polytheism included the supreme god among all...
Augustine’s Long Pilgrimage to Truth
A blessed feast of the great Saint Augustine (354-430), bishop and doctor of the Church, and one of the greatest theologians in her history....
Mercy: Divine and Human, True and False
(The following is an address I offered yesterday at Saint Hedwig's Church for the Divine Mercy celebration. Editor)
This being the Year of Mercy, decreed...
Mark’s Gospel is True History
The four canonical Gospels are without question the four most important books ever written. These books give us an inerrant portrait of Jesus Christ,...
God and the Five Senses
A priest I knew many years ago opposed to the move from Latin to English in the prayers and readings at Mass. “For,” he...
Misreading Eden
Woodstock by Joni Mitchell
Well, I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, "Tell me, where are you...
Chrysostom, Siloam and Hurricanes
Saint John Chrysostom (+407), an ascetic and contemplative monk who wanted only to retreat from the turmoil of life in the Eastern empire, was...
Setting Our Faces Like Flint and Bearing Fruit
“It was not you who chose me, says the Lord, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit...
