Random Reflections on Jacques Maritain
Recently I was startled to realize, it being so uneasy a reminder of my own mortality, that the eminent French philosopher Jacques Maritain has...
Moral Meltdown: A Magisterial View of the Morality of Embryo Adoption
Perusing the website of Snowflakes, an American adoption agency, the viewer is presented with myriad photos of respectable, young-to-middle-aged couples radiantly embracing beautiful, healthy,...
One Species of Human?
I'm not sure how much of Dr. Robin May's presentation (posted below) of the human fossil record is science, or fiction - like most...
Apologetics 101, Question 4: Life, Soul and Substance
Recently, Catholic Insight posted a thoughtful note from Carl Sundell on the essential questions we should be prepared to answer about our faith.
 This list...
Saint Stanislaus Papczynski: Undisclosed Face of Greatness
What makes a great priest? On May 18, as the Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception celebrates the birthday and liturgical memorial of...
The Point of It All
There have been two tragic and public suicides in the news of late, which I have picked up on these pilgrimage travels, praying for...
Christ Comes to Meet Us, To Take Away our Sins
As we journey through the beautiful season of Lent the Church has provided us with some magnificent Gospel readings. In the First Sunday of...
Human Words and the Divine Word
Speaking to her beloved Romeo, Juliet says, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as...
Keeping Advent Well
There is a remnant of the former ways in the Church, in this church where there is no sign of Christmas, where the vestments...
Ascension, Church and Magisterium
When was the Church founded?
Many would say that it emerged from the opened side of Jesus on the cross, like a new Eve from...
