Memento Mori: From Temporary Pain to Eternal Purpose
Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning “remember that you will die.” For centuries, it served as a warning against wasting life on temporary things...
Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s Mission to the Poorest of the Poor
As universities gear up to receive students, we should leave the travails of this world for a moment and ponder the other-worldliness of Mother...
The Interior Furnace: Reclaiming our Burning Love for Jesus and Mary
In our modern, fast paced world, there is a dangerous tendency to turn our Catholic faith into a cold, dry routine. We easily look...
At the Roots of the Mountains: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Contributions to The Jerusalem Bible:...
(Contributor Kaleb Hammond offers here an intriguing historical analysis of J.R.R. Tolkien's small but significant role in the work on the Jerusalem Bible. His...
Beauty and the Assumption
In Dante’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy, the poet puts these words in the mouth of St. Bernard of Clairvaux as he gazes on...
The Long Shadow of Hiroshima
I post this again, indeed each year, in light of 'never forget', so that evil will 'never be repeated. For on this feast of...
Alphonsus of Ligouri, A Moral Teacher for All
Saint Alphonsus Ligouri (1696 - 1787) was a renaissance man, whose kind was a rarity in his post-renaissance era, and even more so now...
The Danger of Therapy Without the Cross
As a psychology graduate, I do not dismiss the benefits of this discipline, along with psychotherapy, which can help us understand behaviour, wounds, fear, grief, family patterns, and suffering. But something changes when psychology stops being a tool and becomes a worldview. One of the great temptations of our age is the belief that therapeutic language alone can tell us who we are, what is wrong with us, and how we are to be healed.
The Letter, the Grotto, and the Promise of Lourdes
Throughout my life, I often witnessed my father turn to the Blessed Mother in prayer. It was not something he did only in moments of fear or uncertainty—it was a relationship that seemed to accompany him through every season of his life. Even in his youth.
Slavery, Scripture, and the Church: human dignity in Catholic historical perspective
The publication of Magnifica Humanitas (2026), the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, has renewed global discussion on the Catholic Church’s historical relationship with slavery....
