Weekly Insight
Psychedelics, Meditation, and Attention to the Mind: Sam Harris’s Recipe for a Post-Biblical Consciousness
Sam Harris, on his latest tour, recently claimed that with a few psychedelics, his genuine instruction on how to attend to the nature of one’s mind, and proper meditative practice, we would no longer...
Catherine’s Pure Philosophy
In one of those ironies of God's history - choosing what seems weak to confound the apparently strong - the patron saint of philosophers is a teenage virgin martyr from the fourth century. Catherine...
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 and children, who were put to death in the most...
Iesu, Rex Admirabilis
This last Sunday of the liturgical year is the Solemnity of Christ the King, and a blessed and grace-filled on may it be for all our readers. The feast was originally celebrated on the last...
Quas Primas of Pius XI: On the Feast of Christ the King
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the institution of the Feast of Christ the King, by the promulgation of Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas Primas, on December 11th, 1925.
QUAS PRIMAS
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS...
A Triptych of Saints: Clement, Columba and Pro
We commemorate three saints on this November 23rd, Saints Clement of Rome, Columba and Miguel Pro, muted this year on the Solemnity of Christ the King. These three intercessors and examples from three different...
Christ the King, and the Promise of Eternal Life
‘Truly, I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise’ (Lk. 23:43).
From the moment that Our Lord spoke these words, the Church has lived in this present time frame. Although the chronology...
Who is Our King?
As Moses prepared the Israelites to enter the Promised Land he prophesied that they would ask for a king, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about...
Saint Caecilia’s Heavenly Music
We have to wait to hear what heavenly music sounds like, but Saint Francis de Sales once recounted that he was blessed to hear an angel played one note on a violin – of...
Our Lady’s Presentation, and the Perfect Gift of Self
The Presentation of Mary – commemorating Our Lady’s dedication and consecration to God as a young girl of about three years old in the Temple – is found in none of the four traditional...
Francis, Leo and ‘Climate Change’
We’ve written before of the story that Pope Pius XII wanted to use the theory of the ‘Big Bang’ – first proposed by the priest Father Georges Lemaitre in 1929 – in an encyclical...
Hot Air Hypocrisy
Irony may be defined as something that goes against expectation, especially radically so. It is the basis of much of literature and films – the small guy who defeats the far larger opponent. David...
Dedication of the Basilicas of Peter, Paul – and the Path to Rome
Today's memorial marks the dedication of the basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul - following upon that of the Lateran Basilica last week. More specifically, this is the anniversary of the consecration of the...
Did the Founders of America Fear Religion?
Ever since the New Atheism crowd emerged several decades ago, there has been an ongoing campaign to nullify the great historical importance of Christianity throughout Western Civilization. Indeed, efforts continue to be made to...
Pope Benedict and Elizabeth of Hungary
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Saint Peter's Square
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Today I would like to speak to you about one of the women of the Middle Ages who inspired the greatest...
