Ascending to the Father
A blessed feast of the Ascension to all our readers who live where it’s transferred to the Sunday, when Christ ascended body and soul...
Clarifying One’s Christian Duty
A recent reflection in First Things warns against sacralising politics (or politicizing the sacred), and rightly so. As the prophet Jeremiah warns: cursed is...
Unto Ash Thou Shalt Return? The Church and Cremation
A friend of mine asked me about the Church’s teaching on cremation, and to fulfil that request, I thought a few words in this...
Nicene and the Filioque
This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, which first promulgated the creed that goes by its name. As the recent...
The duty to defend
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!’’ But it’s “Saviour of ’is country,’’ when the guns begin to...
Nine challenges for the next papacy
As I write this column, Pope Benedict is about to conclude his pontificate, the conclave is about to begin, and critics of the Church...
Terrorism in France: The Enemy in their Midst
The massacre in Paris yesterday marks the beginning, we may presume, of other tragedies to come. Well over one hundred dead, hundreds more injured,...
Saint Philip and Witnessing for Life
Today is the feast of Saint Philip Neri (+1595), the second Apostle of Rome, and the founder of the Oratory, whose houses are now...
Conservative, Liberal, Vive la Difference?
I have an article on the 'requirements for political office, posted this morning on Crisis magazine. Again, feel free to peruse, and I will...
Saint Agnes and True Feminity
Today, the universal Church celebrates the memorial of Saint Agnes, a young Virgin Martyr, who perished by the sword under the reign of Diocletian...
