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      China: An Existential Threat

      Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul –Mao Zedong With Richard Nixon’s official visit to China in 1972,...

      The Church is Eucharistic in Her Very Essence

      O Sacred banquet in which Christ is received, the memory of His Passion is renewed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge...

      Pentecost: Spiritus Veritatis

      When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will...

      Sunday Musical Selection: O Magnum Mysterium

      A reader wanted a version of O Magnum Mysterium, by Tomas Luis Victoria, first published in 1572, at the height of the Catholic restoration,...

      3rd Sunday of Easter: Christ, the Atoning Sacrifice

      Jesus Christ the righteous…he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole...

      Protecting Life Boldly in Malta

      Presently the Maltese parliament is discussing an amendment which, if approved, will introduce abortion to Malta. As we know Malta, together with Andorra in...

      The Simple, Humble and Heroic Witness of St Felice da Nicosia

      It is commonly acknowledged that the first Capuchin saint, Felice da Cantalice, gave a powerful dose of humility, poverty and joy to Capuchin holiness....

      The Office of Peter

      As everyone knows, the word “catholic” means all inclusive. It can be used with no religious connotation, as in “a catholic taste in reading,”...

      Reed of God

      Fanny Price, the heroine in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, makes a striking comment one evening while waiting for a carriage. She says the time...

      Ubi Caritas, Deus Ibi Est

      Based on today's Gospel readings on love and friendship, of God, of Christ, and of each other, much needed in our increasingly divided world,...