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Friendship requires intimacy. By ‘intimacy’, I mean a kind of closeness, a mutual and deep knowledge of the other with whom we are friends. Aristotle agrees wh...

At the entrance to the Renaissance Basilica of Saint Augustine in Rome, a Schatzkammer packed with Caravaggios that stands on a side-street next to a cheap pizz...

Most Catholics know that it’s not good to be lukewarm. In fact, it’s bad — very bad. Afterall, no less than Our Lord and Redeemer Himself made this terrif...

Ever since I was a teenager I have always felt that I was meant to do something big, something important. Something that would be special and perhaps even insp...

More often than not, students will complain about having to endure at least one course of Latin.  In Amercian high schools, and I dare say seminaries, the commo...

Some years back, I was visiting religious orders. I wanted to serve God, and pursue sanctity, by living in community and doing intellectual work. Joining the Do...

The Lucca Madonna, Jan van Eyck, 1436. Does it make you squirm? Here is the Virgin Mary, the Madonna, Our Lady -- in a state of undress. Motherhood is well an...

Recognizing that our Church was dying where she once thrived, Saint Pope John Paul II, in his 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio, first introduced the concept o...