On today’s feast of the Baptism of the Lord, I have the great joy of administering this sacrament to my own newborn nephew, James Patrick. Although he won’t remember it, this will be the best […]
The place rendered sacred by the birth of the Savior does not look like one would expect it to. The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem looks more like a dilapidated fortress than a basilica. […]
These past few months, having begun a new parochial assignment in the summer, I’ve come to know a retired Monsignor, who at the age of 84 generously travels to my parish twice-a-month to celebrate one […]
As was detailed in Part I of this report, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a 28-year-old Belgian immigrant woman named Adele Brise on October 8 and 9, 1859 in Champion, Wisconsin. The Mother of […]
On October 8, 1871, a terribly tragic and almost entirely forgotten episode in American history took place. Strong winds came to northeastern Wisconsin and fanned the flames of small fires begun by farmers attempting to […]
Critics frame the Crusades as an act of aggression from an expansionist Christendom upon an unsuspecting and peaceful Muslim world. This view totally ignores the fact, however, that the these religious wars of the medieval […]
There is a common but myopic view in the West that equates the Arab World solely with Islam and, in many cases, terrorism. This skewed perspective ignores the suffering and dwindling population of Arab Christians […]
Something both theatrical and absurd happened in front of the General Post Office of Dublin on Easter Monday in 1916. An Irish schoolteacher named Patrick Pearse proclaimed to the passersby that Ireland was no longer […]
It was a tiring but joyous Paschal Triduum. After the Easter Vigil, my head finally hit the pillow around one o’clock in the morning. My deep sleep was awakened about an hour later by my […]
From their humble beginnings in Assisi, the Franciscans quickly grew into a great religious order animated by the spirit of their founder. St. Francis’ life was marked by a dynamism unique even among the saints. […]
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