You may judge it a curious or sobering coincidence—the great actor Max von Sydow has just died, during the worst global epidemic in a century. Von Sydow was famous for his performance in Ingmar Bergman’s […]
Ross Douthat made this remark recently while discussing his new book The Decadent Society: How We Became Victims of Our Own Success: But if you look at how many kids they’re having, our birth rate […]
St. Louis, Mo., Mar 25, 2020 / 01:30 pm (CNA).- In the basement of St. Francis Xavier College Church on the campus of Saint Louis University stands a statue of the Blessed Mother and the […]
As Yale’s Carlos Eire masterfully demonstrated in Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650, there was no one “Protestant Reformation” but rather several religious movements, often in disagreement with each other, that shattered western Christendom in […]
Editor’s note: This homily was preached on March 25, 2017, for the Solemnity of the Annunciation for the Congregation of St. Athanasius, Archdiocese of Boston/Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. On this solemnity which celebrates the […]
Covid19 is a dangerous virus, fatal for many. No one can know what the final death toll will be. It is therefore a requirement both of prudence (to avoid becoming infected oneself) and justice (to […]
King Richard II (1377-1399), in the 14th century, formally dedicated England to Mary, giving the country into her care as her Dowry. This has long been of great importance for Catholics in England. A painting, […]
From Dogma und Verkundigung, quoted in Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year (Ignatius Press, 1992): The mystery of the annunciation to Mary is not just a mystery of silence.It is […]
Like many of you, our Sunday morning was spent, not in a pew, but in our living room, watching Mass on television. For a few hours on Saturday, it looked as though we might be […]
For the past few weeks, I’ve been writing about coronavirus: how dangerous it is; and, how it is disrupting life here. Now, you all know what I’ve been talking about, and in ways I’d hoped […]
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