Tuesday, October 14, 2025

A Christmas and New Year’s Meditation: To the Future, with Hope

The Divine Office is the prayer book of priests. It consists of psalms, hymns and prayers that are said through the day. Some lay...

The Nature and Extent of Josephology

Josephology is a relatively new branch of theology that has appeared about two hundred to one hundred-fifty years ago. It has its origins in...

The Eucharist, the Church, and Abortion

Introduction Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver has aptly said that "abortion is the central social issue of this moment in our national history ‒...

Mozart’s Et Incarnatus Est

Mozart's Great Mass in C Major, the 'Coronation Mass', Krönungsmesse - so called since it was a favorite of the imperial court, performed often...

Pope Benedict’s Final Christmas Urbi et Orbi

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI ON THE OCCASION OF CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO THE ROMAN CURIA Clementine Hall Friday, 21 December 2012 Dear Cardinals, Brother Bishops and Priests, Dear Brothers and...

The Prism of Paris

“France has been one of the great nations marked by the Christian faith since the dawn of history; and after the fall of the...

Mary, Ever Virgin, Yet Mother of All

In these latter days of Advent, our focus, liturgically and devotionally, is on Our Lady, expectant, preparing to give birth to the One who...

Pope Benedict’s Final Advent Angelus

(What follows is Pope Benedict XVI's last Advent Angelus address as Pope, in 2012. A couple of months later, in February, 2013, he would...

The Christmas Novena of Saint Alphonsus Ligouri

On December 16, we begin the Christmas Novena. In these nine days of reflection this Novena  will take us up to Christmas Eve, December...

Sunday Musical Offering: Jean Mouton’s Nesciens Mater

Jean Mouton (1459 - 1522) was a French priest, canon and, like Vivaldi (also ordained), a prolific composer, well ahead of his time in...