What ‘Following the Science’ Really Means: The Limits of Medicine and Moral Freedom
If there is one thing that is omnipresent in empirical research, it is doubt.
This line has always stuck with me, from a methodology textbook...
The Art of Dying Well
Saint Robert Cardinal Bellarmine (1452-1621) was a theologian and scholar of the first rank. After joining the newly formed Order of the Society of...
The Holy Eucharist and the Life of Charity
For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for manyâ (Mk....
The True Meaning of Poverty: Twenty Eighth Sunday
âHow hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of Godâ (Mk. 10:24).
As with many of Our Lordâs sayings,...
A True Thomistic Versus an Oddly Ockhamist Josephology
In one of the most recent and popular books on Saint Joseph called Consecration to Saint Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father, Father...
The Great Green Grift
âWhosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his...
The Power of the Holy Rosary
Today, Wednesday 7 October 2021, the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. In the silence of my heart Pope Francisâ...
The Meaning of Man and a True Anthropology: Twenty Seventh Sunday
The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. (Gen. 2:7).
Our first reading...
Why We Are Catholics
Why I Am a Catholic (1932) is a collection of essays by Hilaire Belloc, Archbishop Alban Goodier, Ronald Knox, C.C. Martindale and novelist Sheila...
Philomela – A Poem
"Philomela"
A lark sings through the hellish gloom;
Calls out to her Author.
Praising, loving, she cries her tune,
Piercing my ears to bother.
A lonely cry, muffled and...
