Our Lord’s Passion
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder!” We sometimes hear this expression in a romantic context, as when married or courting couples are temporarily separated...
Romuald’s Eremetical Reform
Saint Romuald (+June 19, 1025/27) was a tenth-century monk, who founded the strict Camaldolese Order, named after their primary benefactor, Maldoli, who, impressed by...
American Oracles: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt
In 2014 there was an incident in Colorado that would jolt the sensibilities of many older Americans. At one school district, students organized to...
The Four Last Things as an Antidote to Euthanasia
Since legalization in 2016, medical assistance in dying has become normalized, with too many doctors and nurses presenting it as a viable medical treatment....
Franz Schmidt’s “The Book with Seven Seals” — an Oratorio of the Apocalypse
The Book of Revelation, also known as the Apocalypse, stands as one of the most image-laden parts of Scripture, and as such, there is...
Saint Caecelia, and What Church Music Should Be
Today is the feast of Saint Caecelia, a young virgin martyr in Rome, put to death either in the late second or early third...
Saint Paschal Baylon’s Humility and Joy
The life of Paschal Baylon (1540 - 1592) has much in common with that of his fellow Franciscan, Joseph of Cupertino (+1633). They were...
Communism and the Popes
No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.
Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno (1931)
Before he became a famed author...
Forgive our Sins as We Forgive
I’ve been hearing confessions, now, for over fifty years, and I have noticed that there is one sin that comes up more than any...
Joseph, a Priest According to the Order of Melchizedek
Have you ever wondered about the identity of that mysterious figure in the book of Genesis named Melchizedek, the King of Salem who offers...