Some things are just too good to let go of, so we prolong them. That’s the intuition that the Church concretizes in her observance of octaves—eight-day-long celebrations—a liturgical inheritance from our elder brethren in faith […]
The world was shocked when Pope Pius IX defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854. While Protestants rejected the teaching outright, even many Catholics objected to the pope’s decision. Exalting the role of […]
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest institutions in the world, spanning the entire globe. There may be no more daunting task for a historian than to try to write a concise (but not […]
Recently, I had the opportunity to lead a pilgrimage to the major shrines of Portugal, Spain and France. The meaning of each stop was known to me prior to our journey: the Mother of God’s […]
“For a bishop, as God’s steward, must be blameless.”1 When Saint Paul wrote these words to Saint Titus in the first century, he was reminding Titus to be careful in his appointment of bishops for […]
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 […]
Not a few of you – like myself – grew up in a Church and society of great security, a security that was shattered by the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s. That rebellious spirit also […]
Let’s take a little detour away from that dense, yet strangely nebulous cloud of Synodality that looms ahead and set our sights, for just a moment on the other current attempt to diagnose and fix […]
The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on the final day of 2022 presents a continued opportunity to revisit and evaluate his legacy as a theologian, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the […]
Every now and then, major media outlets run breathless headlines about the discovery of Jesus’s remains or some other archeological find that supposedly disproves Christianity. As any faithful Christian could predict, such “discoveries” have never […]
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