The Holy Eucharist and ‘Being There’: Much of Life is All About Showing Up
Simple facts can often be significant . . . and often unadverted to. Consider the Last Supper. Obviously, the Apostles had to be present...
The Richness of the Holy Eucharist!
One of the most beautiful ways that the Holy Spirit teaches me to think about the Eucharist is that of pondering upon its immense...
The Church is Eucharistic in Her Very Essence
O Sacred banquet in which Christ is received, the memory of His Passion is renewed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge...
In Defense of Sanity: Chesterton’s Remedy
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) hardly needs an introduction to the typical reader of Catholic literature. Author of more than sixty books of essays, fiction, poetry,...
The New Lepers?
(I have an article coming out on the scientific method - how we develop 'models' to explain the universe, either in some small way...
Credo in Unum et Trium Deum
Two creeds are in common use among us: the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed, which we use on liturgical occasions, and is a...
The Early Christian Writers on the Holy Trinity
As we are celebrating Trinity Sunday my mind and heart cannot not ruminate and contemplate the beauty of this outstanding mystery, the Holy Trinity,...
The Holy Spirit, Leading us into All Truth
‘When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth’ (Jn. 16:13). ⧾
With the glorious Feast of Pentecost the seven...
Contemporary Despair and Misplaced Hopes
In good part because the rhetorical trick is quickly becoming hackneyed, I will not herein aver the existence of a “real pandemic” behind the...
Fundamentalism A, B and C
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The slogan of the Protestant Reformation was “sola Scriptura,” that is, a conviction that the Bible and the Bible alone contains God’s revelation to...