The Church this time of year is filled with holy and earnest expectation. We hear, year after year, the sighs of the Bride, the Church, for the presence of the Bridegroom. The calls become louder and more extravagant as we…
Recently, people have been passing around a piece on Pillar Catholic, Who is responsible for these controversial Twitter Priests? It is an interesting article, although not for the reasons explicitly set forth in the article itself. Let’s start with the…
Cyber espionage, as much as cyber imbecility, has been in the news frequently in recent years. Most recently was the revelation that the Vatican was hacked by the Chinese Government, which is yet another reason to argue that the whole…
“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…
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), one of the greatest of Irish poets, was also a staunch nationalist. So much of the impetus for the establishment of an Irish Free State apart from British hegemony was a long cultural memory of oppression and…
In the beginning of this month, the New York Times published the OpEd of Arthur C. Brooks, Our Culture of Contempt, which highlighted an insightful phenomenon that is very lively in the world today. We do indeed live in a…
Tolerance at its best and worst A friend tells a funny anecdote about a Permanent Deacon who used to give very popular marriage prep classes. He sat down specifically with the Grooms, to whom he directed the question: “Guys, do…
I believe it is a safe thing to say, perhaps even self-evident, that for the average Catholic, there are only two Priests on their radar screen: their Parish Priest(s), and the Pope. Even though the Priest says the name of…
“Sicut est zelus amaritudinis malus qui separat a Deo et ducit ad infernum, ita est zelus bonus qui separat a vitia et ducit ad Deum et ad vitam aeternam.” – Regula Benedicti, LXXII. Just as there is a bad zeal which…
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…