The Bible, as History and Theology
There was a theologian a few years ago who made quite a splash in the media by criticizing the Bible. A lot of people...
Sixteenth Sunday: Persevering in Faith in the Face of Evil
The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world, and the good seed are the children...
Systemic Blindness
How can you fight something you cannot see properly?—An Officer in Training with Canadian Armed Forces
As Canada languishes in this protracted period of medical...
Old Thunder: A Retrospective on Hilaire Belloc
(The following piece, if memory serves, was submitted and published by Carl Sundell a year or two ago, but I can find no record...
Eighteenth Sunday: Earthly and Heavenly Eutopia
The feast described by the prophet Isaiah in today’s first reading, with its “wine, milk and rich food,” was for the Jews a symbol...
The Eucharist is Everything
Taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the...
WOJTYLA INSTITUTE 2020: THE FOUR LAST THINGS
WOJTYLA INSTITUTE 2020: THE FOUR LAST THINGS
The Wojtyla Summer Institute is moving online for 2020!
This year’s theme is “The Four Last Things”, featuring live online...
The Psalms as Prayer
We hear a lot of the Bible at Sunday Mass. There are four readings every week, although the fourth one is usually ignored. Everyone...
The Science of the Cross
When they got into the boat, the wind ceased. And those in the boat worshipped him, saying, ‘Truly you are the Son of God’...
The Reality of Saint John’s Eucharistic Symbolism
INTRODUCTION
The Gospel of St. John, unlike the Synoptic Gospels, offers no account of the institution of the Eucharist in his narrative of the Last...