Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Cardinal Gibbons’ Cure for Atheism

James Cardinal Gibbons (1834-1921) was twenty one when Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, and died not long after World War I. He attended the...

The Holy Mass Part I: A Reflection on the Traditional Mass

Fifteenth Sunday Per Annum (B)                                                 ...

Private Versus Public Morality

Toward the end of his term in office, American President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court of the United States. ...

Everything Hinges on How We Respond to Christ’s Word

And Jesus could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. And...

Fourteenth Sunday: The Inadequacy of Relativism and Random Chance

A theme common to Ezekiel and Saint Mark—the readings for the fourteenth Sunday, year B—is the necessity of faith . . .  and, be...

Josef Pieper on Death and Immortality

“I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives...

Canceling Conservative Priests

Our world is becoming increasingly violent; a world where people are led and misled by half-truths, slogans and ideological clichés. This violence is directed...

A Brief History of Vaccines, Their Efficacy and Why These Ones Are Different

“To vaccinate or not to vaccinate, that is the question”, soliloquised Piglet, “since all vaccines are equal, but some vaccines are more equal than...

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...

In Defense of Sanity: Chesterton’s Remedy

G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) hardly needs an introduction to the typical reader of Catholic literature. Author of more than sixty books of essays, fiction, poetry,...