The Raising of Lazarus

How old was Lazarus? Robert Browning, in a poem written in 1855—An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician—suggests that...

The Re-Consecration of England Through Our Lady of Walsingham

Tomorrow, March 29th, in the year of Our Lord 2020, five centuries after the beginning of what is known as the 'Protestant Reformation', England...

Urbi et Orbi Blessing

Pope Francis is inviting Catholics - indeed, all people of good will - to witness and receive his Urbi et Orbi - to the...

The Wisdom of the Theresas in Times of Adversity

To help us during struggles and challenges in life, Our Lord has given us the great Theresas: St. Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower,...

Healing the Blind, That We All May See

Although we have been dispensed from attendance at Holy Mass because of the pandemic, it would be good to read the lessons of the...

A Catholic Response to the Transgender Moment

The Catholic doctrine of the imago Dei  - that man is made in the very ‘image of God’ - looks perhaps simple at first...

Ite Ad Joseph, the Mighty and Provident

The strong and silent saint from the Gospel, is a fitting one for our troubled times: The husband of the Virgin Mary, and foster...

What Are the Laity to do Without the Mass?

Lord, we are the least of all the nations, now we are despised throughout the world, today, because of our sins. We have at...

Pius XII – The Final Chapter?

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against...

A Reflection on the suspension of Sunday Masses on the Third Sunday in Lent,...

O that today you would listen to his voice! Harden not your hearts (Ps. 95). The Responsorial Psalm of the Mass on this third Sunday...