From the Roman feast. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May the Gospel’s holy lection Be our safety and protection. ℟. Amen. Reading 1 Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke Luke 9:1-6 At that time: Jesus called His twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure…

This year marks the 800th anniversary of the definitive composition of the Canticle of Brother Sun, also known as the Canticle of the Creatures or Laudes Creaturarum, by St. Francis of Assisi († 1226). This remarkable work, one of the first texts found in the anthologies when one studies Italian literature, is distinguished by its…

What is freedom for? And why is it so important that we be allowed to exercise it? Do the choices we make really matter? Ask an atheist and he’ll tell you it’s for actualizing the self in a world without God. Of course, in a godless world why would freedom matter at all? What difference…

Although even Pope Leo XIV acknowledges that mass immigration is a “huge problem,“ a recent “Pastoral Note to Migrants” issued by Michigan’s Catholic bishops is an embarrassing combination of fallacy, contradiction, doctrinal subversion, begged questions, conflict of interest, and hypocrisy. To start, the letter from the bishops ignores the elephant in the room: the violation…