Catholic and Christian Unity
Today, the 19th of January and the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, marks the beginning of the Church unity octave, a week of prayer...
Agape Love
Theresa of Avila wrote that “love is like a perfume-filled room.” Could it be that we can only describe such an ineffable concept using...
Faith and war
(Here is one from our archives, from 2014, and from Sarah Gould's reflections, the world has not changed all that much in the last...
Cardinal Zen’s Letter from the Heart to the College of Cardinals
(The following is excerpted from LifeSite news, and the full piece may be found here. For another take on the troubling situation in China,...
The Need for Spiritual Care in Dementia
“Dementia is a group of symptoms that affects mental cognitive tasks such as memory and reasoning. Dementia is an umbrella term that Alzheimer’s Disease...
Epiphany’s Lesson
In the events surrounding the birth of Jesus, three groups are called to our attention: the shepherds, the Magi and the court of King...
Facing 2020
“First we overlook evil. Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those...
Timely Words from a Far Off Place
(On this feast of the Holy Family, in my breakfast reading, I stumbled across this homily from Pope Saint John Paul II which he...
Preaching the Primacy of the Family
It has always been difficult for the homilist to preach on the feast of the Holy Family. In the old days, the priest would...
Isaiah, Christmas and Salvation
For a Child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; he is named Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty...