“After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in…
Words which reflect culture Some cultures have patterns of behavior or an outlook on life which is so distinct that they create words which at times are either extremely hard to translate, or words which reveal a deeper meaning in…
In September 2019, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) released the results of a survey conducted in the spring of the same year. The subject was sexual abuse in seminaries, and there were 15 questions which quite…
One piece of news that may have escaped readers during the Christmas Holidays was one from December 27, at which time the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, announced that their Bishop, Daniel Conlon, was leaving the Diocese and taking a medical…
Wisdom, Adonai, Root of Jesse, Key of David, and all the Old Testament titles of Our Lord are those which even now we use to beg him for the realization of what the Lord God promised long ago “at sundry…
On December 13, 2019, Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, announced that he was taking a medical leave of absence due to ongoing problems with anxiety and depression. It seems that most have received the news with compassion, understanding and…
Witness to Sorrows It was a hot but sunny late summer day when I met Father Anthony*, a Priest who was just a few years shy of his fiftieth anniversary as a Priest. We sat down in the cozy foyer…
The word ‘crisis’ in my opinion is one of the most overused words in the English language, largely because of sensationalistic journalists who, in order to sell stories on the news of the day, abandon all sense of time and…
Much has been said in the past three years about the anti-establishment political wave sweeping the Western World. Many people usually ascribe this phenomenon to the yawning gulf between political elites and their interests, and that of the ‘average’ person.…
This week, among my readings I was greatly edified by an offering from Father Gordon Macrae in his blog These Stone Walls, with his April 3 2019 piece A Little Perspective before Stoning Your Priest. He touched on some subjects…