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Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo (the Great) 1 st for Twelfth-Day. Dearly beloved brethren, we have but lately celebrated that day whereon the inviolate virginity of Blessed Mary gave to man a Saviour….
Ask any average Catholic, “What is a saint?” and you will likely receive a puzzled look. The facial expression predicts their responding question, “What? You don’t know what a saint is? Everyone knows that? A saint is someone who is in Heaven!” And they would be correct, but only half-accurate, since, biblically speaking, there is…
A noteworthy Catholic speaker and musician, Paul Kim, tragically lost his son to a severe case of the flu. Another Catholic chastity speaker’s son was recently diagnosed with cancer but, through the prayers of thousands, seems to have made a miraculous recovery. Jennifer Fulwiler, a convert and passionate woman of God whose words have brought…
The Italian Vaticanologist Andrea Gagliarducci, who has a web page called Monday Vatican, is a careful observer of the papal transition—which means he is a careful observer of a very careful pope, Leo XIV. Gagliarducci commented on Pope Leo’s approach to understanding the political process in this way: “Leo XIV does not seem to be…
The U.S. government is afraid. For the last few years, we have watched a slow-motion collision between the Department of Defense and a reality it cannot explain. We have seen Congressional hearings where decorated pilots testify about objects performing impossible maneuvers. We have heard intelligence officials invent sterile, bureaucratic language to describe the inexplicable: “Instantaneous……
Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. 2nd on the Epiphany. Many kings of the Jews had been born, and died, but which of them was sought after by wise men to worship…
One of the measures of the success of a diocese is the number of its seminarians because they reflect a spiritual ecology. If young people are not willing to give their lives in service to God when they hear the call, then either they are not listening for it or their environment represents an obstacle….
Governments really dislike competition. And they dislike moral limits even more. Just War Theory exists because states, left to their own devices, will always find reasons to justify force. The theory does not ask whether a target is good or evil. It asks whether the use of violence itself is morally licit. That distinction is…
Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. 2nd on the Epiphany, 30th on the Season. Wise men came from the East to worship the Virgin’s Son. This is the event which we this…
Avarice, or greed, is one of the seven deadly sins. According to St. Timothy, “The love of money is the root of all evils.” Greed is part of the human condition. It has always been with us. Yet in our progressive, post-Christian, materialistic, and debased culture, it seems like we are seeing more and more…
