Editor’s note: Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) was born 97 years ago today, on Holy Saturday, 1927. In recognition of that day, CWR is reposting this essay, originally published on Jan. 2, 2023, by one […]
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88) is considered by many to be the greatest theologian of the twentieth century. Balthasar is said to have been Saint John Paul II’s favorite theologian, and he was one of […]
About midway into his fifth and most recent book of poems, Outside the Gates of Eden, David Middleton prints an elegy for the late Louisiana naturalist Caroline Dormon. There, he speaks of his “early poems,” […]
Today the crisis of the human person seems to be reaching a nadir. The apparent successes of efforts to promote confusion about sex and sex difference, which strike at the foundation of the human person, […]
The Second Sunday of the Easter Season is known by many names: the Octave Day of Easter, Low Sunday, Dominica in Albis Depositis, Quasimodo Sunday, Thomas Sunday, and in more recent times as Divine Mercy Sunday. The meaning […]
Two men were born in the late nineteenth century in Italy, were ordained as priests, became widely known during their own lifetimes, and are now canonized saints. While Saint Gaetano Catanoso had much in common […]
If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have […]
But as for me, God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ… — Apostle Paul (Gal 6:14) When St. Paul preached “Jesus Christ and him crucified,” the crucifix […]
Easter in America is fast becoming a hidden feast. I’ve already noted that, unlike Christmas, secular America manages to let Easter pass mostly unnoticed. If you limit yourself to the secular cultural milieu, you might […]
On the Readings for Sunday, March 25, 2018, Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion […]
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