The Devil’s Deathly Dominion
Physician-turned-author Walker Percy’s final novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, published in 1987, tells the odd tale of a town wherein the ‘elites’ are devolving -...
Life Is Fragile, So Use The Good Dishes
One of the greatest lessons learned during my nursing career is the fragility of human life. Many times when a patient and their loved...
Lenten Second Sunday and the Salvific Spirit of Sacrifice
‘This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!’ When the disciples heard this, they fell to the...
Sine Qua Non of Sunday Family Dinner
A few years ago, my husband and I looked around at our family and realized that our existing dining area was becoming too small...
The Second Sunday of Lent: The Wonder of the Transfiguration
The Transfiguration is celebrated twice in the Church’s liturgy: on the second Sunday of Lent but also on 6 August. The latter date is...
Moral Meltdown: A Magisterial View of the Morality of Embryo Adoption
Perusing the website of Snowflakes, an American adoption agency, the viewer is presented with myriad photos of respectable, young-to-middle-aged couples radiantly embracing beautiful, healthy,...
Compassion is not cynical: a reply to David Bentley Hart on Annulment and Divorce
David Bentley Hart has recently suggested that the Eastern Orthodox practice of divorce is more coherent and compassionate than the Catholic practice of annulment.
The...
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ: From the Visions of Anne Catherine...
In this account of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions regarding the Last Supper, trial, scourging, carrying of the Cross, crucifixion, death and resurrection of...
The Three Temptations of the First Lenten Sunday
When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time (Lk. 4:13). ⧾
On Ash Wednesday we began our observance...
The Spirituality of Lent and the Science of the Cross
‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11).
On Ash Wednesday we began the observance of the holy season of Lent with...
