Pope Benedict XVI, Requiescat in Pace
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (1927 - 2022) died this morning, at 95 years old, at 9:34 Rome time, in his residence at the Mater...
Twelfth Sunday, Open Churches and the Return of the King
‘Fear no one….Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven’ (Mt. 10: 26, 32). ⧾
At long...
Blessed Candles, Holy Families
In the past year, the Good Lord has willed that some serious challenges beset my family, challenges which have brought me to my knees...
Fulton Sheen’s Thoughts for Daily Living
The Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) needs little introduction. At the peak of his radio and television popularity from the 1940s to the...
Robert Bork on Slouching towards Gomorrah
Robert Heron Bork (1927 –2012) was a judge and law professor who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court in 1987....
The Mask slips on Radical Environmentalism
People who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn
In the shadow of the Climate Change conference in Kadowice last...
Contemporary Despair and Misplaced Hopes
In good part because the rhetorical trick is quickly becoming hackneyed, I will not herein aver the existence of a “real pandemic” behind the...
Did the Pope Change Church Teaching on the Death Penalty?
At the climax of Luke’s passion narrative, we see Jesus hanging between two criminals. One of the criminals mocks Jesus, but the other responds,...
The Magi’s Epiphany
The Gentiles have become fellow heirs, members of the same body, and sharers in the promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel (Eph. 3:6).
Our...
John Lukacs on Democracy and Populism
Hungarian John Lukacs (1924-2019) was born to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother. He studied history at the University of Budapest and fled...