“The Answer”
James
Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal George in 2008, Source: Alex Wong/Getty Images North America).
What a great leader we lost with the passing of Cardinal Franc...
They Said It…
Happy Easter!
Cream City Catholic
"Easter is the feast of the new creation. Jesus is risen and dies no more. He has opened the door to a new life, one that no longer knows illness and death. He ...
Prayers, Angels and Paradise
James
I am reading the Sermons on Prayer by Saint Francis de Sales. They are short meditations on the goal, spirit and kinds of prayer. In his reflections on the ...
Benedict, Francis and Flannery
James
Photo Credit: (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano via Reuters)
Making the rounds is a sharp observation by Flannery O'Connor: "The truth does not change accordi...
A “safeguard against corruptions”
James
View from the Basilica of Saint Peter, Rome (photo credit: arounddeglobe.com)
"The use of the Latin language prevailing in a great part of the Church afford...
Mass and the Mother Tongue
James
Pope Paul VI offers Mass in Italian and Latin
I thought this piece by Dom Alcuin Reid was excellent. He takes a serious and balanced look at the 50th Annive...
Cardinal Newman on “a habit of prayer”
James
"A habit of prayer, the practice of turning to God and the unseen world in every season, in every place, in every emergency – prayer, I say, has what may be...
“True humility”
James
"True humility consists in our being satisfied with what is given us."
Saint Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection, Chapter 18
How important is humility? I...
Papal Warnings Ignored
William
“Humility” and “reform” are the buzzwords of our day. The old, ostentatious, triumphalist Church must be demolished; and a new, stripped-down, populist Church m...
On Martyrs
James
Martyrdom of Saint Ignatius of Antioch
If we observe carefully the example of martyrs, of the courageous witness of Christian antiquity, as well as many of th...