One of my main complaints regarding the reactions to the current crisis is that many good people are high on anger but low on ideas. Moreover, most people, with the best of intentions, tend only to be able to look…
The average person today is awash with information about events all over the world. A person in Nebraska can with a flick of his finger see what a friend is having for dinner in Nepal. The endless stream of novelties…
Discouragement is a powerful and dangerous thing. Whenever we as Catholics revisit the Liturgical Season of Advent, we recall the powerful words of the Prophets such as Isaiah, “Comfort, comfort my People” (Isaiah 40:1), and the description of the Messiah…
If you asked a Pope, especially one in the Middle Ages and even up till Trent, what was the number one thing they feared, most Popes would have said their greatest fear was a General Council. Many secular princes, when…
The modern world in which we live is replete with references to rights. We claim rights to free speech, to religion, to assembly, and more. These seem to most, who live in liberal democracies, to be part of the basic…
As readers may already have guessed, I love all sorts of music. Beauty in all its forms has a way of bypassing all the typical rational and even affective resistances which we have built up in our minds and…
Recently I found myself working most of the day at a Church Food Pantry, which is always an eye opening experience. It reminds me of how lucky I am, and also how so many “ordinary” people lack some of the…