Entering into Holy Week
Christ became obedient for us unto death, even death on a Cross. (Gospel Acclamation). ⧾
Palm Sunday begins our observance of Holy Week, the Week...
Pope Saint John Paul II’s Last Passion Sunday
(This is the last of Pope Saint John Paul II's Passion-Palm Sunday homilies, given in 2004, before his own passion and death the following...
Providence and a Thief’s Goodness
Last year on Palm Sunday we heard the passion from Saint Mark’s Gospel, and next year it will be from Saint Matthew. Each is...
Benedict’s Intervention
In a remarkable turn of events, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI – former cardinal Josef Ratzinger – has just released a reflection on the current...
The Ratzinger Report Revisited
The Italian journalist and Catholic convert Vittorio Messori in 1985 published his two hundred page interview with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict...
A Letter to a Catholic School Teacher
(What follows is adapted from a letter of a parish priest, Father Scott Murray, to a Catholic school teacher, in the publicly-funded, separate system,...
From Savagery to Love
What follows is an excerpt from Pope (Emeritus) Benedict XVI's last Lenten message, completed in October of 2012; I wonder, as he penned these...
Instant Conversion
One feature of the Gospel for this Fifth Sunday of Lent has intrigued many readers: Jesus’s writing on the ground with his finger. For...
Justice in the Prodigal Son
So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with...
The Layered Meaning of the Prodigal Son
In 1861, John William Burgon, the (Anglican) dean of Chichester cathedral, preached a sermon in Christ Church cathedral, Oxford, that...
