Beware of Communists Bearing Gifts
(This article builds upon a previous one published at Catholic Insight on December 9, 2018 under the title Trojan Horse in the City of...
WOJTYLA INSTITUTE 2020: THE FOUR LAST THINGS
WOJTYLA INSTITUTE 2020: THE FOUR LAST THINGS
The Wojtyla Summer Institute is moving online for 2020!
This year’s theme is “The Four Last Things”, featuring live online...
Sunday Musical Selection
Palestrina's Missa Lauda Sion, from his setting of Mass for four voices, published in 1582:
https://youtu.be/Uq4-BgseDrU
And Antonio Vivaldi's Lauda Jerusalem, composed in 1739:
https://youtu.be/CYAn8roqEtA
The Eucharist is Everything
Taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the...
Eighteenth Sunday: Earthly and Heavenly Eutopia
The feast described by the prophet Isaiah in today’s first reading, with its “wine, milk and rich food,” was for the Jews a symbol...
Martha and Mary: The Good Part
Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her (Lk. 10: 42).
⧾ In Christian tradition Martha and Mary have...
Old Thunder: A Retrospective on Hilaire Belloc
(The following piece, if memory serves, was submitted and published by Carl Sundell a year or two ago, but I can find no record...
Blessed and Blessed
GREEK HAS A WORD FOR IT. That’s an expression that recognizes that there are subtle distinctions available in Greek that English lacks. For instance,...
Systemic Blindness
How can you fight something you cannot see properly?—An Officer in Training with Canadian Armed Forces
 As Canada languishes in this protracted period of medical...
O Sing Unto the Lord
An anthem by G.F. Handel, composed 1717-18, whose beginning strains echo those of the Messiah, but quickly gains its own flavour and personality -...
