Arguably the most difficult challenge to our salvation is the call to forgiveness. Be merciful...
In 1896 a German immigrant to the United States, a man named Emmanuel Ninnger, paid for his...
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops and individual dioceses were quick to respond to the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protest demonstrations. One striking feature of many of those responses is their well...
During this pandemic Churches throughout the land have been forced to close. Our bishops point out this means solely the building. The Church, the Body of Christ, cannot close. While I have been disappointed...
Recently, on a social-media platform, I had the following conversation with a CEO regarding economic history. As you’ll note, history may be viewed from different perspectives. MY INITIAL POST During the Great...
We need to wonder how shocked Nicodemus must have felt when Jesus broke to him the greatest piece of good news ever: “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might...
A reader recently offered this (paraphrased) comment on an essay of mine: “Your essay and others like it leave me frustrated. They talk about the impact of Modernism, the failures of U.S. bishops and Pope Francis...
Pentecost is the birthday of the Church! Its conception had been very quiet: from the side of the first Adam asleep, Eve, the mother of humanity, came forth. From the opened side of Jesus, asleep in death, on mount...
The COVID-19 coronavirus may be a divine scourge as well as a call to return to God affecting seriously one fourth of humanity, and which becomes a nightmare for those whose duty is to protect citizens against health...
It might be hard to soar above what seems a rather prosaic description of the Ascension of Jesus Christ (cf. Acts 1:9) so as to benefit spiritually as much as possible from this solemnity lest we forget what is the...
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