In Holy Week, Life’s Indignities Reveal Our Eternal Dignity (National Catholic Register): “In the frailty of old age and the reversals of family life, the cross of Jesus Christ comes into focus as the true measure of human dignity.”
The Easter Triduum and Three Essentials (What We Need Now): “In re-reading Bishop Varden’s eleven addresses, three essentials caught my attention. And all three are prominent during Holy week, forming a connective theological tissue between Lent and the Easter Triduum.”
Remembering Evelyn Waugh (Chronicles): “Everywhere he turned, Waugh saw the collapse of classical and Christian moral standards and the erosion, driven by egalitarian envy, of the hierarchies that had sustained the European social order for centuries.”
American Renewal and the Continuity of the West (The American Mind): “The liberal republicanism of the American Founders is unthinkable without confidence in the sanctity of the person that owes infinitely more to the Christian inheritance than it does to skepticism or desiccated rationalism.”
Excerpt from ‘Faith in the Furnace of Doubt’ (The Catholic University of America Press): “On the blog this week we offer our readers the Epilogue from Joshua Hren’s new book on Dana Gioia, and then a brief Q&A with the esteemed poet!”
Scott Hahn and His Happy Band of Convert Brothers (The Catholic Thing): “On March 29, 1986, Scott Hahn was received into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. So much good for the Catholic Church followed.”
2026 may be a turning point in Anglican-Catholic dialogue (Crux): “Sarah Mullally was installed as Archbishop of Canterbury on March 25, the first woman ever to hold the post. On the surface of it, there was a great deal of good feeling around the historic occasion. Beneath the surface, however, there are rumblings suggesting tensions between the Holy See and Canterbury may be coming to a head.”
Three words from Palm Sunday (Word & Song by Anthony Esolen): “This week we will be taking our lead from the events we commemorate in the days leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus, and his rising from the dead on Easter Sunday.”
‘Lots of moving parts’ – The planning of Fulton Sheen’s beatification Mass (The Pillar): “The Vatican announced Wednesday that Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be beatified on Sept. 24, nearly seven years after the archbishop’s originally scheduled beatification was delayed.”
How Kanye Went Nazi (First Things): “Last year, Kanye West—sometimes known as Ye—released a song titled ‘Nigga Heil Hitler.’ The music video featured rows of black men bathed in blue light fiercely intoning the title phrase. Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube all refused to carry the track.”
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@ In Holy Week, Life’s Indignities Reveal Our Eternal Dignity
Having read Larry Chapp’s essay when it appeared in NCReg, I had the time as a Lenten reflection to meditate on his deepfelt love for his aged parents now requiring help.
Who shows up at the door? Their son Larry. Chapp speaks of providing intimate care for resistant, mentally debilitated Mom [Nor did he forget his physically compromised father and his likewise beloved aged dog]. Exactly what she did for him as an infant.
Years past, I read an account by a priest who did the same for his mother. Given a world turned cold, what an example of love.
@ In Holy Week, Life’s Indignities Reveal Our Eternal Dignity
Honor thy father and thy mother, a command particularly absent in a world given to self concern, a convenient ‘place for mom’ where assisted living and nursing homes are the final solution.
A world grown cold beginning with our attitude toward parents. Many a mother, occasional father has intimated their hurt for children who don’t visit, refuse the slightest words of care.
Amen, Father Peter. Thank you.
Re #1 In Holy Week, Life’s Indignities . .
Lovely article.
I’ve heard that children are sent for the salvation of parents.
Maybe it works the other way round too.