Monday, June 30, 2025

The Popes and Becoming Holy

In the solemnity of All Saints Day we are reminded that we too can become holy. Holiness must be our existential target. In fact,...

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...

Loving God With All Our Heart

ā€˜Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one’ (Mk. 12:29). ā§¾ The Gospel of the Mass today contains what we Christians call...

The Bioethicist and the Embryo

(This is one instalment of a four-part series on the human embryo by Dr. Eshan Dias. We are posting the third part of the...

The Body and Judgement

ā€œThe Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead, . . . will give life to your mortal bodies.ā€ This is what we...

Saint Joseph: Foster Father, Virginal Father, Real Father?

As I do more reading into what various theologians and josephologists have written about the fatherhood of Saint Joseph, I notice that there is...

Christ’s Universal Grace

Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans is based on a parallel between the figures of Adam and Jesus Christ. In the Bible, Adam is...

Max Planck’s Mighty Minimum

Suppose for instance someone maintained that there is a minimum magnitude; that man with his minimum would shake the foundations of mathematics. So prophesied Aristotle...

Seeing By Humility

ā€˜Son of David, have mercy on me’ (Mk. 10:47). ā§¾ The request made by Bartimaeus in his encounter with Our Lord reveals two things: the...

Praying and Rejoicing with Pope John Paul II

Today, Friday 22 October 2021, the universal Church cries out with joy for the feast of Pope St John Paul II. On this very day,...