Saint Cyril of Jerusalem: The Vital Importance of Catechetics
The saints during Lent - with few exceptions, such as Saint Joseph - are celebrated as muted 'commemorations', but that does not decrease their...
Third Sunday and Thirsting at the Well For the Water of Life
‘Give me a drink’ (Jn. 4:7).
The conversation of Our Lord and the Samaritan woman revolves around the gift of water. This request is presented...
Contra Cardinal McElroy’s Moral Muddle
In January, Cardinal Robert McElroy, one of the most recent Bishops elevated to the cardinalate by Pope Francis, published quite a controversial article in...
Trials, Purification and Transfiguration
And He was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white (Mt. 17:2).
On the second Sunday...
Canada at the Gates of…
“It is gravely unjust to enact laws that legalize euthanasia or justify and support suicide, invoking the false right to choose a death improperly...
First Sunday: The Hope and Joy of Lent
‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11).
On Ash Wednesday we began the observance of the holy season of Lent with...
The Backstory of the Daily News: Notes on Science, Politics and Gnosticism by Eric...
(Eric Voeglin (1901-1985) was a German political philosopher, who narrowly escaped the Gestapo, and spent most of his life in America. He wrote voluminously,...
A Primer for Our Lenten Pilgrimage
‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11).
On Ash Wednesday we begin the observance of the holy season of Lent with...
Saint Peter Damian and Pope Benedict
Not many in the hierarchy write like Saint Peter Damian (+1072), whose direct and blunt condemnation of the unnatural sexual sins of the clergy...
The God of Love: Christ in the Song of Songs
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for...