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In our Epistle reading for this Sunday in the Octave of Christmas we hear from Paul’s Letter to the Galatians 4:1-7. There are two special points to underscore. Let’s see the reading: [Brethren] [T]he heir, as long as he is a child, is no better than a slave, though he is the owner of all…
Above: The Meeting of Joachim and Anne outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem by Filippino Lippi (1457–1504). They say “good things come to those who wait.” Many of us who have got our “miracle babies” after our infertility journeys know the feeling of totally ecstatic happiness that a baby can bring. Along with that feeling…
It’s 1952, and John Wayne’s latest film, The Quiet Man, is a huge hit at the box office. It is about a stranger who arrives in an Irish village with a secret he does not want to disclose. A year earlier, a little-known Irish author, Malachy G. Carroll, had published The Stranger, a novel about…
Editor’s note: we continue our weekly serialisation of Dr. Edward Schaefer’s new book A Simple Man’s Case for Tradition. This book is an excellent introduction to Traditionalism and provides an easy way for Trads to introduce the movement to fellow Catholics who are seeking deeper answers to today’s questions. Proceeds from the book sale also…
In a brilliant essay in The London Times, Lord Jonathan Sumption, former justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, voiced his chagrin about the victory for a law permitting assisted suicide in Great Britain, which won a comfortable margin of votes in the British Parliament. His analysis should serve as a warning for…
The cardinal of Chicago, Blase Cupich, has issued a directive to demand that parishioners in the archdiocese not kneel to receive Holy Communion, on the grounds that doing so interrupts the flow of the procession and calls attention to the individual. Of course, kneeling at a Communion rail would not interrupt anything at all, or…
Above: Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Photo credit: Vatican News. Pope John Paul II, a Slav, spoke often of his desire for healing the breach between Rome and Orthodox Christians. In his 1995 Apostolic Letter Orientale Lumen, he wrote: Of the many tragic effects of the East-West schism, one…
Christmas was the beginning of the greatest tale ever told, and lesser tales have mingled with it for centuries to participate in its glory. On this night, God became Man as singing angels gathered peasants and kings and beasts beneath a sky of dancing stars. Every Christmas since, ghosts have gamboled in graveyards, animals have…
It might have all been different. We might have been forced to watch child sacrifice elevated to a national sacrament, sales of potassium iodide and fallout shelters exploding in anticipation of nuclear strikes, twerkers and groomers and drag queens in the White House Christmas videos. Innocent men and women held hostage here and abroad might…
[Editor’s Note: The passage below is from Divine Intimacy by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D (Baronius Press), originally published in 1963. Merry Christmas!] God is charity: He has loved us with an everlasting love! “I think God must have said to Himself: Man does not love Me because he does not see Me;…
