Newman and His Fierce, Unchanging Religion
I will not shrink from uttering my firm conviction, that it would be a gain to this country, were it vastly more superstitious, more...
Josef Pieper on Death and Immortality
āI am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives...
What We Should Believe About Saint Joseph
Many years ago I was given a copy of the book Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Doctor Ludwig Ott as a gift. I considered...
Conformity to God, Not To the World
The godless say, ālet us wait for the righteous one, who makes life inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; who reproaches us for...
Cosmos Korb and the Problem of Evil: A Tragedy in Brief
For reasons which will be apparent, my alias is Martin Beck. I am about to present several excerpts from the diary of my academic...
Second Sunday: Do Whatever He Tells You
His mother said to the servants, āDo whatever he tells youā (Jn. 2:5). ā§¾
In the Gospel of St. John which we have just heard,...
Second Sunday of Lent, and Seeing Beyond Our Eyes
Are old people wise? Have they learned anything from experience? Or are they all curmudgeons, continually grumbling about the young generation and contrasting it...
The Good Shepherd Never Leaves His Flock
Has any one of you been a shepherd? or even seen one? Do shepherds exist in contemporary North America? Nevertheless, we know instinctively that...
Seventeenth Sunday: Perfecting Our Prayer With and In Christ
Ask and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you (Lk. 11: 9)....
Thirty First Sunday: Mercy Sought, Mercy Bestowed
For the Son of Man has come to seek and save what was lost. (Lk. 19:10) ā§¾
The conversion of Zacchaeus may be said to...
