George Weigel’s Double Standard
George Weigel, papal biographer and social commentator, certainly has his fixed opinions, and I donât mind that, even if I may at times disagree...
It’s All About Liturgy
The author here makes a good point, that regardless of how bad, awful, outlandish, puerile, even sacrilegious liturgical abuse may be, it is almost...
Saint Bernard’s Three Advents
In one of his sermons, the Cistercian abbot, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (+1090) distinguishes three Advents of Christ: The first, at Christmas, when He...
Pretense at Saint John Lateran
Pretense:
 A false appearance or action intended to deceive.
 A professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext.
Something imagined or pretended. (https://www.wordnik.com/words/pretense)
What term...
Becoming Eunuchs for the Kingdom: What Gives?
In Matthewâs Gospel (19:12) Our Lord exhorts us to become âeunuchsâ, which is not to be taken too literally, even if there are rumours...
The Astronomer and the Physicist
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The ancient Greeks â Plato and Aristotle, especially â made a distinction between two approaches to science. (And, by science, they meant anything that...
Saint Bernard of Montjoux, or Menthon
The iconic Saint Bernard dogs take their name from today's saint, Saint Bernard of Menthon - also known as of Montjoux - an 11th...
The Pope, COP and Climate Change
Thereâs a story told of Father Georges Lemaitre, the priest who first proposed the theory of the Big Bang in 1927. He didnât call...
A Universally Mandated Secular Vegan Monasticism
It's as rigorous as the ascetic lives of the desert monks, of the Eastern Fathers, and the glory days of the Trappists and Camaldolese....
Saint Thomas of Villanova
This Saint Thomas (1488 - 1555), of noble Spanish lineage, and had it all, as the saying goes, taking as his 'last name' the...
