Temple University in Philadelphia is the third largest university in Pennsylvania; it enjoys a worldwide reputation for research, scholarship, and education, and has international campuses in Tokyo and Rome, in addition...
On the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear the familiar term Kingdom of Heaven. It must be quite important because we hear it often; but do we clearly know what it refers to? Other similar terms are: the Good News, the Gospel, Jesus Christ, the...
On Monday, June 9th, we celebrated the memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Mother of the Church. Such a feast has a long and interesting past. To begin with, this feast is celebrated exactly on the day after we...
At least once a year, we need to venture into the infinitude of God and to explore it rather than shy away from such impossibility. We wonder about this lure of the infinite that makes us feel so very small, so...
One of the great Popes of the Church is surely Pope St Paul VI. In his 15 fifteen-year papacy, Pope Paul wrote some 7 encyclicals, 12 apostolic exhortations and hundreds of homilies, letters as well as speeches. Pope...
Despite one’s personal thinking and the absolute chaos of American politics since the start of the Biden administration, it is difficult not to have any sympathetic thoughts about Joe Biden’s recent announcement that he...
“[God’s] assistance is always at hand if we are willing to cooperate with it, as the light is present with the sun, if we choose not to shut and wink our eyes willfully.” “A Dialogue Concerning Heresies”/Free Will...
My children sometimes talk about things Tom and I got right in our parenting. It’s a blessing that they notice these things and hope to include them in their own parenting. The most recent example of this is my older...
Nowadays, there is a lot of restlessness in our hearts and our minds deal frequently with heavy concerns. Hence, as believers, we look toward heaven and sigh as if to tell the Lord that we are placing ourselves and our...
There are many kinds of joy. We find joy of celebration in family events such as graduations, weddings, and the birth of children. There is joy in holidays like Christmas, Easter, birthdays, or anniversaries. Joy of...
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