Weekly Insight
Living in Wonder
Years ago I decided to take a course on Wagnerâs Der Ring des Nibelungen, I know, very mainstream. As I sat in a small class room with people who were a minimum twenty years...
Slow Reading
It's a common trope that reading has diminished of late, especially since the advent of ubiquitous screen technology, but the demise likely predated the i-pad and e-reader. Television is a culprit, but so are...
The Feast of the Annunciation: God’s Invitation
In the quiet village of Nazareth, far removed from centers of power and influence, a young woman named Mary was living what seemed to be an ordinary day. There were no signs that history...
Three Musical Offerings for the Annunciation
A very blessed Solemnity of the Annunciation to one and all! This March 25th marking the greatest event in history - the Incarnation of the Son of God - goes back to the very...
Homily of John Paul II in the Basilica of the Annunciation
A blessed Solemnity of the Annunciation to one and all! Verbum caro factum est! Here is a meditation of the late, great John Paul II, staunchly devoted to Our Lady, from the Jubilee Year,...
The Population Dud
Paul Ehrlich died last March 13th, at the age of 93. He was the author of The Population Bomb, published in the fateful year of 1968, when the sexual revolution was in full swing,...
The Indefatigable Saint Turibius
Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo (+1606), a missionary bishop of Lima, Peru from 1579 until his death in 1606, who never seemed to stop, a heroic model for bishops for all ages, as well as...
Two Lenten Saint Nicholases: FlĂŒe and Owen
On March 21 and 22, we commemorate two saints by the name of Nicholas. The first is Nicholas of FlĂŒe (1415 - 1487), patron saint of Switzerland. His life was unique, and perhaps not...
I Am the Resurrection and the Life: Fifth Sunday and Passiontide
âI am the resurrection and the lifeâŠDo you believe thisâ? (Jn. 11:25-26).
The fifth Sunday in Lent marks the beginning of Passiontide. We will now begin to recall the events most closely preceding the days...
The Scary Harem of IVF
This bizarre article caught my eye: A father and son in Quebec have sired between themselves 613 children by donating their sperm for use in IVF. Yes, you read that rightly. All those children...
Podcast: Chastity, Purity and Modesty
I recently had a conversation with Mrs. Bonnie Landry, on whose popular podcast 'Make Joy Normal: Cozy Homeschooling' I've been a guest before. This time, the theme was the much forgotten, if not maligned,...
Two Great Bookend Popes on Saint Joseph
I think of Pope Leo XIII (the last pope of that name, who reigned from 1878 to 1903, after whom the current pope took his own title) and Pope Saint John Paul II (from...
The Foster-Father of All of Us
Growing up, I didnât really have a father figure. Because of that, I didnât have much respect for the vocation of a father or a husband. It felt distant, almost irrelevantâlike something I couldnât...
Proclamation of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church
Pope Blessed Pius IX declared Saint Joseph patron of the universal Church in 1870. This was sixteen years after the same Pontiff defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, on the same day, in...
Homily of Pope Benedict on Saint Joseph
APOSTOLIC JOURNEY
OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI
TO CAMEROON AND ANGOLA
(MARCH 17-23, 2009)
EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION
ON THE OCCASION OF THE PUBLICATION
OF THEÂ INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS
HOMILYÂ OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI
Amadou Ahidjo Stadium of Yaoundé
Thursady, 19 March 2009
Dear Brother Bishops,
Dear Brothers...
