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Above: The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio (1602). This text is taken from The Liturgical Year, authored by Dom Prosper Gueranger (1841-1875) Our neophytes closed the Octave of the Resurrection yesterday. They were before us in receiving the admirable mystery; their solemnity would finish earlier than ours. This, then, is the eighth clay for…
We bring to completion the great Octave of Easter this Sunday, though “completion” here is to be understood in the Church’s own liturgical sense. For a full eight days, by that ancient inclusive counting which the Romans knew so well and Christians inherited, it has still been Easter Day. The Church has, as it were,…
Many years ago, I was told a joke that was not in particularly good taste, nor was it particularly funny. I’m going to retell it, irrespective of the aforementioned reasons for not doing so, because it illustrates something greatly ironic about the culture of death and the dictatorship of relativism in which we find ourselves….
Above: the Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921). This text is taken from The Liturgical Year, authored by Dom Prosper Gueranger (1841-1875) The seventh day of the gladdest of weeks has risen upon us, bringing with it the memory of the Creator’s rest,…
This is Part II of a two-part series. Click here for Part I. In the first part of this series, I listed the nine levels of prayer and described the first four, which exist along what is called “the Purgative Way.” In this second part, I will explore the second and third ways of prayer…
On March 26, 2026, a young Spanish woman committed suicide. But public opinion is split on whether to mourn or to celebrate. Noelia Castillo had a difficult life. Her parents divorced when she was a child. Drug addiction left her a ward of the state. By the time she was 22, she had been sexually…
The relationship between the Trump administration and Pope Leo XIV has evolved into a kind of diplomatic cold war, shaped by a steady escalation of public papal denunciations and competing moral narratives in how each side interprets the responsibilities of global leadership. Pope Leo’s recent condemnations of U.S. policy—from military actions to the rhetoric of…
Eight days ago, we were standing near the cross, on which died the Man of Sorrows, abandoned by His Father, and rejected, by a solemn judgement of the Synagogue, as a false Messias: and lo! this is the sixth time the sun has risen upon our earth since the voice of the Angel was heard…
Above: Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (He That Is Without Sin?) by Vasily Polenov (1844–1927). One of the best literary commentaries ever written on the Prologue of St. John’s Gospel is undoubtedly Anthony Esolen’s In the Beginning Was the Word: An Annotated Reading of the Prologue of John, which overthrows modern assumptions and…
Everyone wants to Make America Healthy Again, but we’re looking in the wrong places. We debate health-care policy, argue about insurance systems, and spend billions on supplements, medications, and biohacking trends; meanwhile, we ignore one of the most powerful and accessible tools for restoring human health: we’ve stopped growing our own food. Less than a…
