I recently found a collection of papal addresses on education. It begins with Pope Pius VII (papacy: 1800 - 1823) and ends with Pope Saint John XXIII (papacy: 1...
One-hundred years ago this Saturday, the Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children on a sun-scorched plain in Fátima, Portugal. The children's names were ...
European chivalry had tied manliness to gentleness and had “subdued the fierceness of pride and power.” In Christian Europe, authority had been tamed by elegan...
I am thinking of two of the deepest and most fruitful prayers of Christendom, which are always leading us anew into the mighty river of the Eucharist: the Stati...
Pope Pius XII called Dietrich von Hildebrand "the twentieth-century Doctor of the Church". Pope Benedict XVI is also a great admirer. Dietrich von Hildebrand (1...
How powerful is music? How influential is music on culture? Does it matter? Isn't it all subjective, up to individual taste? To start off this reflection, read ...
One of the more troubling cultural developments in our day is the movement to obscure the reality of sin. We're getting to the point where even many self-profes...
You've heard the saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure." Well, for the entire history of the Church, silence has been greatly treasured as an essen...
One of the most edifying books I've read in recent weeks is a compilation of addresses on education given over the course of Pope Benedict XVI's pontificate: A ...
Is it going too far to suggest that the reformed liturgy of the late '60s (what most Catholics experience on Sundays) can be executed ad orientem (facing east)?...
