“Merry Christmas!” from Catholic World Report
The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”: “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering […]
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Full text: Pope Francis’ Midnight Mass Homily
This evening in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated his first Midnight Mass as pope. Below is the text of his homily, as translated by Vatican Radio. *** 1. “The people who walked in darkness have […]
Frank Capra’s Forgotten Christmas Classic
Bring to mind a scene from a Frank Capra movie: a good man stricken with despair stands at a great height pondering suicide; the snow falls softly all around; it’s Christmas Eve. No, not It’s […]
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Clericalism: A football team with only coaches and no players
“The pope is the successor of Peter. The bishops are the successors of the college of the apostles. The priests share in that to a limited degree. And that’s my summary of ecclesiology.” That’s funny–as […]
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Students, parents rally for gay VP ousted from Catholic high school
Last week students at a Seattle-area Catholic high school staged a sit-in to protest the removal of their school’s vice principal, who the school says violated his employment contract by marrying another man over the […]
Christmas, Suffering, and the Cross
I graduated from high school in England back in 1977, and it’s grimly sobering that some of the people reading this column weren’t even born then! Be warned younger people—middle age creeps up on as […]
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St. Joseph’s doubt and the angel’s gift
Readings: • Isa 7:10-14 • Ps 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 • Rom 1:1-7 • Mt 1:18-24 “Looking on thee, O Unwedded One, and dreading a hidden wedlock, O Sinless One, the chaste Joseph was riven in […]
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Duck Dynasty’s Patriarch: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
[Editor’s note: The following piece specifically addresses remarks made by Phil Robertson about homosexuality and marriage. Any positive remarks about those statements should not in any way be construed as an endorsement of Robertson’s views […]
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A Reply to the Anonymous Critic at Rorate Caeli
My recent article in Catholic World Report presenting another side of the story about the Vatican intervention in the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate prompted a “rebuttal” by an anonymous “very well-informed source” that was […]