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      A Hallowed Eve: The Spiritual and Cultural Traditions of Halloween  

      Halloween has always been a complicated holiday, laced together with many threads of different spiritual traditions and cultural customs. It has always stirred up...

      Dedication, Devotion and Reparation to the Sacred Heart: The Twelve Promises

      Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is popularly associated with St. Margaret Mary Alocoque, a nun of the Visitation Order who during the...

      22nd Sunday: Embrace the Cross

      If anyone wants to become my disciple, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. (Mt 16:24) As we continue our reading...

      Can a woman be confident AND vulnerable?

      The other day, one of our students sent me an article. While I nearly poked my eyes out over the vulgarity of the writing,...

      The Middle Ages: The True ‘Gothic’

      Long ago, there was a surefire test by which to recognize a truly cultured person: anyone who could hear the William Tell overture without...

      Brendan’s Voyage

      Today commemorates Saint Brendan, the sixth century Irish monk, the 'Navigator', whose main claim to fame is a supposed seven year trans-Atlantic voyage in...

      Fatima, Prayer and Private Revelation

      Today is the commemoration of Our Lady of Fatima, a title given to the Virgin Mary after she appeared 'brighter than the sun, shedding...

      Australia needs the Sacred Heart of Jesus

      (Australia, the antipodean Land Down Under, is under a severe lockdown, with people arrested for surfing all alone, and, what is far worse, no...

      The Truth and Irony of Mercy

      Irony may be described in one way as something happening, not that you don't want to happen, but that you don't expect to happen,...

      Humility and the First Sunday of Lent

      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...