What’s Wrong with the World? Well, The Hatred of Words, and the Word
I suspect there are few people left who don’t think there’s something very wrong in the world today, whatever their political and moral leanings...
A Saint Visits Malta
In his apostolic exhortation on the call of holiness in today’s world, Gaudete et Exsultate, Pope Francis wrote: “The saints are distinguished by a spirit...
As Steals the Morn
One of Handel's most delightful Arias, 'As Steals the Morn', with the libretto lightly adapted from Act 5, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Tempest:
The charm...
An Unholy Triumvirate
The Communist Party cannot be neutral toward religion. It stands for science, and all religion is opposed to science. ~ Joseph Stalin
The religions are...
Alicja Lenczewska’s Encounters with Jesus, and Their Remedy for Sin
When a confessor hears the same sins repeated over and over again, a thousand million times over, he may begin to wonder if there’s...
A Protestant Gentleman, Predestined?
He was a good man, in the old Scottish Presbyterian phrase, God-ward and man-ward. - Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
Leslie Hamilton Neatby who died...
Is University Worth It?
As cliché as it sounds, we are living in unprecedented times. This is no less true in colleges and universities than it is elsewhere. ...
A 21st Century Dies Irae – in Conversation with Composer Thomas Crow
Please introduce yourself and your relationship with Faith and Music.
My name is Thomas Crow and I am a Catholic Composer from Wakefield in England....
Whither our Sanctity?
If you were to consult a catalogue of saints, you would not find the name of Zacchaeus listed. Do you recall who he was—the...
All Saints’, Real Conversion Therapy and Hope Amidst the Ruins
This is the eve of All Saints' known affectionately in our era as 'Halloween', even if many may not knows the derivative of this...