Weekly Insight
The Georgia Martyrs and the call to holiness at home
Holiness is rooted in the life we live each day, offering it to God.Ā Within families, this means loving one another through the demands and trials of daily life.Ā The newly beatified Georgia Martyrs...
Hard Cases and Abortion
In an effort to win support for legalized abortion, its advocates will point to the hard cases. The idea is that anyone who would deny an abortion to a woman in difficult circumstances is...
The Fall of the American Republic-(ans)?
So the blue tsunami has hit the shores of America, with the Democrats handily taking both the Senate and the House, making Donald Trump a ālame duckā president for the two years that remain...
The Real Story Behind the Gunpowder Plot?
Ryan Grant has a post on OnePeterFive on the really happened with infamous the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, which does not seem to be what people think it is, or, more to the point,...
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Remember, remember! the fifth of November.
Ā Ā The Gunpowder treason and plot;
Ā Ā I know of no reason
Ā Ā Why the Gunpowder treason
Ā Ā Should ever be forgot!
Ā Ā Guy Fawkes and his companions
Ā ...
The Golden Calf isn’t a dwelling place of God. You are.
With November being dedicated to the Holy Souls, I've found myself thinking about death, the human body, and something that might seem rather unusual to people outside the Catholic Church: our veneration of saints'...
Charles Borromeo Leads the True Reformation
The memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo (1538-1584) commemorates one of the great pillars - along with Saint Robert Bellarmine, Philip Neri, Teresa of Avila and countless others - of what is unfortunately known as...
Death is Banging on My Door
A poem by Carl Sundell
When Death comes
banging on my door,
let him in.
I'd count it no sin
to surrender my skin
to the old pale Prince.
If I've not done
what God meant me to do,
it's the Devil's right
to...
The Meaning of Midterms
The term 'midterm' has various applications, from tests in the middle of the semester - which is how I usually think of things - to elections held in the middle of a presidency, taking...
Martin de Porresā SuperHeroic Charity
Some of the saints signify sanctity in a way that goes beyond the norm, if ānormā can be applied to a thing like sanctity, which itself is characterized by going beyond the normal requirement...
Two Complementary Requiems
On this All Souls' Day, here are two Requiems, which commemorate the dead with beauty and transcendence, and may accompany our prayers this day.
The first is Mozart's famous rendition, which he left incomplete on...
Pope John Paul’s All Souls’ Message
JOHN PAUL II
ANGELUS - ALL SOULS DAY
Sunday, 2 November 1997
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
1. Yesterday we celebrated the Solemnity of All Saints and today the liturgy invites us to commemorate the faithful departed. The Church...
All the Myriads Upon Myriads of Saints
A blessed solemnity of All Saints to all our readers! Its institution goes back to its official institution by Pope Gregory III (731 ā 741) as a commemoration of all the countless martyrs who...
Pope Benedict and All the Saints
HOLY MASS ON THE SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Vatican Basilica
Wednesday, 1 November 2006
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Our Eucharistic celebration began with the exhortation: "Let us all rejoice in the Lord". The...
Luther’s Fateful All Hallowed Eve
(Here is a re-post of a reflection on this 'All Hallow's Eve' anniversary of the generally accepted date for the formal start of the 'Reformation', when legend has it that Luther nailed his 95...
