Franco and the Progressive Rewriting of History
For more than a century now, the international communist movement has been hiding and sanitizing its own history while subjecting its opponents to relentless...
Pope Benedict and Saint Albert the Great
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Saint Peter's Square
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Saint Albert the Great
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
One of the great masters of medieval theology is...
Pope Pius XI’s Letter on Saint Francis de Sales
(One hundred and two years ago, on the 26th of January, 1923, Pope Pius XI promulgated an encyclical on Saint Francis de Sales on...
The Agony of Abraham
First Argument
When skeptics complain bitterly about the so-called “Judaeo-Christian mythology,” one of their most frequent objection is to the incomprehensible cruelty of God as...
Mater Dei and Mary’s Role in Salvation
The shepherds went with haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph and the Child lying in a manger (Lk. 2:16).⧾
On this the last...
The Psychology of Fasting
Fasting was an essential aspect of primitive Christianity, as it had been in Old Testament times. That the followers of Jesus would fast is...
The Holy Mass Part II: What God Does for Us, and What We Do...
This Sunday’s reflection is the second in a series of meditations on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, with specific references to the Ancient...
True Christian Tolerance
In Lent we pledge ourselves to acquire virtue. The one, perhaps the only, virtue universally honoured today is tolerance. It is a useful Lenten...
Third Sunday of Lent: Accepting or Rejecting God’s Truth
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness (1 Cor. 10:5). ⧾
These sobering words from...
Why Confess Our Sins?
The Catholic Encyclopedia explains that a sacrament “is an outward sign instituted by Christ to impart grace to the soul.” All Christians believe in...
