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...
The Loneliness of the Whistleblower
When Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was crusading against the Vladimir Putin government by investigating one crime after another, she had imagined the damning headlines...
Depression Skyrockets: Why?
“I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth...
Twenty Eighth Sunday: Gratitude, and Glory, to God
Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, tuned back, praising God with a loud voice. He prostrated himself at Jesus’...
Revolution Now?
“Exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralised is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing,...
Marcel Tyberg – a Forgotten Composer of the Holocaust
In the 75 years since the end of the Second World War and the Holocaust, it is still hard to say how much the...
The True Beauty of Liturgical Music
The tragic loss of beauty in liturgy we should not dismiss lightly, for if there is one thing we can glean from Scripture, and from...
Pope Benedict and Saint Ignatius of Antioch
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
St Peter's Square
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Saint Ignatius of Antioch
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
As we already did last Wednesday, we are speaking about the...
Etienne Gilson on Mad-Hatters and Metaphysics
The character of the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland has its origin in the fact that in the 1800s hat makers...
Pope Saint John Paul II’s Last Lent
Here is Pope Saint John Paul II’s final Lenten meditation, which he finished on September 8th, 2004 – the birthday of Our Lady -...