Courage and Campion’s Brag
We need more thumos in the Catholic Church, the Platonic notion of 'spirit, courage, wherewithal, steadfastness, zeal, magnanimity, capacity' and we may add a...
Edmund Campion’s English Optimism
Today, behind the first Sunday of Advent, we celebrate Saint Edmund Campion – see Avellina Ballestri’s fine recounting of his glorious life from the...
ChatGPT and the Purpose of Education
S.A. Dance makes a good case for true education, on the second anniversary of the release of ChatGPT, the 'artificial intelligence' software - which...
Britain Chooses Death
Tragic, but not a suprise, that the House of Commons yesterday voted by quite a wide margin - 330 to 275 - to legalize...
Life and Death in Britain
Britain votes tomorrow - or today if you're reading this on Friday - on euthanasia, or more properly the Terminally Ill Adults (End of...
The Popes and the Miraculous medal
November 27th is the traditional Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, which offers great hope for our shattered world. It was on...
St Leonard of Port Maurice: Servant of the Cross of Christ
On November 26th, the Franciscan family celebrates one of its great saints: St Leonard of Port Maurice, who performed an amazing number of missions,...
Homily of Pope John Paul: Christ’s Spiritual Kingdom
EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION FOR THE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING
HOMILY OFÂ POPE JOHN PAUL II
Sunday, 23 November 1997
1. On this Sunday which closes the liturgical year,...
Andrew-Dung Lac and the Vietnamese Martyrs: Washed in the Blood of the Lamb
On this memorial of the Martyrs of Vietnam, we commemorate a whole panoply of white-robed witnesses, Christians, bishops, priests, Franciscans, Dominicans, lay men, women...
Quas Primas of Pius XI: On the Feast of Christ the King
QUAS PRIMAS
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI
ON THE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING
TO OUR VENERABLE BRETHREN THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES,
ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS, AND OTHER ORDINARIES
IN PEACE AND...
