Tuesday, November 25, 2025

To Be a Pilgrim: Thanksgiving as a Pilgrimage

      Thanksgiving, for most people here in America, is something of a precursor of Christmas that initiates a deluge of holiday hits playing ad...

When Empathy Fails the Pro-Life Movement, Natural Law Must Speak

If the case is as it seems to be and the newest generation of voters is simultaneously more wounded, jaded, and emotionally immature than...

The Rocky Road from Doubt to Faith                                            

Thanks to my Irish Catholic mother and 12 years with the good sisters of six parochial schools and four more years at the University...

The Eternal Flame: A Poem

Persona Christi, in his threefold office, Faces the House where the Pillar of Smoke Made camp, his head by the nails in His feet,   His breath, pulled...

A Meditation for Lent

Jewish rabbis have a useful word to describe the attitude of a believer to Sacred Scripture. The word is mashal, and it is used...

A Primer for Our Lenten Pilgrimage

‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11). On Ash Wednesday we begin the observance of the holy season of Lent with...

Benedict Beatifying Newman

MASS WITH THE BEATIFICATION OF VENERABLE CARDINAL JOHN HENRY NEWMAN HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI Cofton Park of Rednal - Birmingham Sunday, 19 September 2010 Dear Brothers and...

Love of Country: The Unsung Virtue

“For us, after God, the greatest love is Poland”  - Bl. Stefan Wyszyński In the sixteenth century St. John of the Cross said: “The Lord...

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...

One Papacy, Two Popes: A Brief Reflection

  It is a curious situation in the Church that we have two living Popes, one of them a resigned, retired Pope 'emeritus'.  One is...