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• December 17: The O Antiphons – “O Wisdom!”

  The O Antiphons – “O Wisdom!” by Thomas Smith Read (This can also be sung to the melody “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”! “O Come, O Wisdom from on high, who orders... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Meaning Behind the Mystery: The Parts of Mass

  At Mass it’s easy to go on autopilot. We know the gestures, responses, and prayers…too well. We sit, stand, kneel, make the sign of the cross, hear readings, an... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How to Be Free in the Lord

  

  FRANCIS CARDINAL GEORGE, O.M.I. In the last seven months, Pope Francis has seized the imagination of the world and fascinated many who usually pay little... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Living the Examined Life

  

  Father George William Rutler The wistfulness of these autumnal days moves the mind, by the natural withering of leaves and the shortening of days, to think of... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How Football Became a Symbol of American Decadence

  

  by FATHER RAYMOND J. DE SOUZA for The National Post The NFL knows something about rigging the system. It’s Halloween, the last day of October, so now football... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Blessings of Sin

  

  by Regis Martin for Crisis Magazine When asked once about a sermon he’d just heard, the legendarily laconic Calvin Coolidge managed to summarize its theme in a... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• If the Catholic Church is True, Why All the Sinners?

  

  In the hundred years 870-970 twenty-five Popes reigned, many of them violently done to death. It was a period of unparalleled disorder, violence, depravity in... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Hannah Arendt

  

  FATHER ROBERT BARRON The appearance of an art house film on the philosopher Hannah Arendt has sparked renewed interest in an old controversy. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Pope Francis and ‘The Interview’

  

  ARCHBISHOP CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F.M. CAP. We need to open our hearts — all of us — and let God lead us where he needs us to go through the words of the Holy... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Faith According to Pope Francis

  

  It’s not a banana smoothie, but a transforming encounter with Jesus Christ, here and now Msgr. Daniel B. Gallagher,The Catholic World Report Pope Francis... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Media Are Getting Pope Francis Wrong. Again.

  

  by Sheila Liaugminas, MercatorNet So, yes, the Pope is still Catholic. And no, he didn’t say what they claim he said. Those are the basics. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Your Life is Not About You

  

  Video Commentary by Father Robert Barron Time Magazine’s recent cover story “The Childfree Life” has generated a good deal of controversy and commentary. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How Catholics Can Save Civilization

  

  ARCHBISHOP CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F.M. CAP. [a talk at the Laity Engaging Laity Conference] We need to understand that the more secular we become, the more our... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How Narrow is the Way of the Cross?

  

  By Carl E. Olson in The Catholic World Report “Crucifix” by Byzantine artist, Cimabue (1272) Over the past few weeks we have heard, in the readings from the... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Religious-Liberty Quagmire to Come

  

  by Benjamin Wiker – National Catholic Register A recent Slate column, “All Corporations Go to Heaven,” about the Obama administration’s Health and Human... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Onward March of Evil Euphemisms

  

  by Brian Pollard About a hundred years ago, G.K. Chesterton wrote an essay “On Evil Euphemisms”, which opened with these words “Somebody has sent me a book on... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Jesus Teaches Us the Words and the Ways of Prayer to God the Father

  

  BY MSGR. JOSEPH PRIOR (reprinted from CatholicPhilly.com) “Teach us how to pray,” the disciples ask Jesus. In answering them Jesus gives us three lessons on... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Jesus, Our New Temple

  

  J.P. Nunez From the Mar/Apr 2012 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine Jesus held the Temple in the highest regard, calling it a house of prayer and the dwelling place... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Evil, Be Thou My Good

  

  FATHER GEORGE W. RUTLER Satan calls evil good. Christ calls it crucifixion. With my parents at a performance of Gounod’s Faust at the opera some years ago,... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Taking Up Our Cross

  

  FATHER JEAN-NICOLAS GROU, S.J. Crosses are the great means which God employs to destroy self-love in us and to increase and purify his love within us. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY