The Church calls this day by two names: Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday: The first, for victory – the name most people recognize, not surprisingly; the second, for suffering – the one most folks would […]
“I am perfectly aware,” apologized Fr. Robert Hugh Benson in the preface to Lord of the World, “that this is a terribly sensational book.” But for fans of dystopian apocalyptic novels, no apology is necessary: […]
Yesterday, at the Synod on Young People in Rome, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. of Philadelphia gave two interventions that included specific criticisms of the Instrumentum Laboris – the working document for the synod — and some […]
Readings: • Wis 2:12, 17-20 • Ps 54:3-4, 5, 6 and 8 • Jas 3:16-4:3 • Mk 9:30-37 Three of the greatest temptations known to man are lust for power, pursuit of illicit pleasure, and […]
On the Readings for Saturday, September 14th, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross […]
A consideration of the two Apostles we honor today, a reflection on the Petrine office in the Church, and a challenge to live the implications […]
On the Readings for Sunday, June 17, 2018 […]
W. L. Patenaude’s debut science-fiction novel features a richly imagined fictional world in which the Gospel of Christ goes to the farthest frontiers of space. […]
Love is a free gift; it cannot be coerced, manipulated, or commodified. The greatest example of this is found in the Incarnation. […]
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Mary weeps at the foot of the cross, and we weep with her. But we also must not stop there. For beyond the cross of […]
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