January 3 is the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. Does that feast make sense to people today? To appreciate its meaning, we need to give up some modern thinking and recover biblical […]
The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God has, in modern times, become somewhat confused. Not too long ago, it was the “Circumcision of the Lord” (the account of which remains the Gospel) because, as the […]
As we make our way towards Christmas, I reflect on how Catholics of Polish ancestry make that journey. My wife is likely to be spending much of December 24 preparing for the Wigilia (Vigil) supper, […]
I’m a Jersey Guy who’s been away from living in New Jersey for almost 27 years. I was back last week with my son doing some painting in the house I still own there. On […]
Advent begins December 1st this year, making it almost the shortest Advent one can have. If I had to offer one piece of advice to Catholics, it’s getting Advent right. Advent is a time of […]
Last November, my wife and I traveled to Boston to visit our son. While there, he took us to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, an extraordinarily rich institution still—surprisingly—not overtaken by extreme wokeness. The […]
In a previous essay, I wrote about why prayer for the dead is a necessity—not just a “nice thing to do” during November. For all our prayers and good deeds to be spiritually efficacious we […]
Many people watching the post-election meltdown of the Left on social media view it with some measure of Schadenfreude and I suspect the average American dismisses it as silly. In some sense, it is silly. […]
Catholics observe November as the month of prayer for the faithful departed. But November begins with All Saints Day. What, if anything, connects these two? Well, they are connected. We perhaps need to widen our […]
Forty years have passed since October 19, 1984, when Polish priest and Solidarity chaplain Jerzy Popiełuszko was kidnapped and murdered by agents of the Communist secret police in Poland. The then-37-year-old priest was abducted from […]
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