“Behold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the salvation of the World.” Relics of Our Lord’s Passion have always been dear to his followers. The True Cross, the actual wood on which Jesus […]
This Pentecost weekend, 19,000 pilgrims are making a three-day walk from Paris to reach Chartres Cathedral. Now organized by a French Catholic lay group called Notre Dame de Chrétienté (“Our Lady of Christendom”), the pilgrimage has expanded so much […]
There had to be men and women saints of all kinds. And today. . . we ought perhaps to have saints of yet another kind. — Charles Peguy, The Mystery of the Charity of Joan […]
Our Lord’s foster-father has always held a prominent place in the hearts of the faithful, has he not? Surely, we have always invoked the trio of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph? At the risk of shocking […]
The final edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1940) is a drab little volume smaller than the average paperback. Bound in soft gray cardboard, its 510 flimsy pages—plus front matter and appendices—record the Church’s last […]
“Then Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the Magi, was exceedingly angry; and he sent and slew all the boys in Bethlehem and all its neighborhood who were two years old or under…” […]
O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, . . . —Francis Thompson, “The Kingdom of God” This review presents an unusual challenge. As a regular reader of the author’s excellent […]
As headlines daily remind us, antagonism towards Jews is the most enduring hatred in our world. The Lost Mirror: Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain examines one segment of this phenomenon at the time that […]
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 […]
Satan—the Adversary, Prince of Darkness, and Father of Lies—was a latecomer to the repertoire of Christian art. Early Christians, more interested in images of salvation than damnation, preferred depicting the Good Shepherd, the saints, the […]
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