The Transcendent Meaning of the Ascension
A very blessed and joyous Solemnity of the Ascension to all our readers... At least in the Church universal, which follows the historical fact...
Bach’s Musical Offering
Today marks the 267th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, who passed into eternity this day in 1750, after a rather barbaric...
Weirdness of Vegas and Wildness of Catalonia
Something is definitely odd about the gunman and the shooting massacre in Vegas: A 64 year-old multi-millionaire accountant with no military training, no record,...
Saint Andrew’s Scotland
Today is the feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, patron of Scotland, Russia, Ukraine and Greece, for reasons that are somewhat...
The Charism of Saint John Bosco
The term 'charismatic' has an ambiguous meaning in the Church, invoking images of liturgical guitars, drums, emotional crescendos, and disconcerting glossolalia. In the Church's...
Scandalous and Sacred Fashion
I must admit that I have trouble keeping up with the via mundi, the ways of the world, and have this abiding, if inchoate and...
Singing, Sex-Ed and Louis and Zelie Martin
Paula Adamick in her article today, in her usual vivid way, connects the cultural trajectory from the ‘long, hot summer’ of 1968 to the...
Matthew, Save our Schools
Saint Matthew, the writer of the first Gospel, represents all those ‘called’ from sin, to the highest of virtues. We know little of his...
John of Damascus, Defender of Icons and the Last of the Eastern Fathers
Was there ever a golden age of Catholic and Islamic relations? The evidence for such is slim, with the two religions seemingly incompatible and...
The Radical Prodigal, Saint John of God
Saints are by definition ‘extreme’, for they live a liminal life, on the very threshold of eternity, seeing past the veil of this world....
