Sending out an “SOS”! Message in a bungle!
Feel like a castaway these days? Feel like those who should have the greatest care of you have sloughed you off for the sake of the ways of the world? You are not alone. With that as a preamble, if … Read More →
Archaeology and King Solomon’s Mines
Christian Schussele, “King Solomon and the Iron Worker,” 1863 Where was the biblical Tarshish? Here’s one possibility.
Our Lady of the Wayside
Jakub Halun Kazimierz Dolny Market Square with the Church of the Annunciation in the background The Catholic Marian pilgrim will find much in every corner of Poland.
Praise for Our Lady and Her Juggler
Glyn Warren Philpot, “Le Jongleur du Notre Dame,” 1928 Such is the virtue of gratitude.
First Martyrs of the See of Rome
In the first few decades after the death and resurrection of Jesus in 30 A.D., Christianity began spreading throughout the Roman Empire, and before long reached the city of Rome itself. Because Christians were at first considered by the Romans to be merely a sect of Judaism, they were tolerated, but the mysterious nature of […]
On Being a Middle-aged Parent
Parenting is hard. I feel well qualified to make that assessment. My wife and I started our family when we were in our early 20s. Now in our 40s (when did that happen?), we’ve arrived at the point where our older children are leaving home. Determined not to let us be empty-nesters until we’re ready […]
The Saints Teach Us How to Trust God
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. -Hebrews 10:23 In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus speaks very movingly about the need to rely on our Father’s loving care: “Do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, […]
Discipleship and the Sacrifice of Self-Interest
Today, Jesus gives the Twelve lessons in discipleship, both its costs and its blessings. Gospel (Read Mt 10:37-42) In verses preceding today’s reading, Jesus perhaps startled His disciples with this warning: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword” (vs. 34). The battle […]
Persecuted: Why the Moral Ideal of the Christian Life Serves as a Constant Reproach to an Immoral World
Christian persecution continues at an alarming rate. BOOK PICK: ‘The Coming Christian Persecution’
The Great Achievement of Christianity
Rolf E. Staerk Flag of the United States on St Patrick’s Cathedral among midtown skyscrapers in Manhattan. COMMENTARY: Christianity will prevail in the final analysis because it recognizes the supreme importance of the spiritual, the true meaning of liberty, and its moral obligations to people in the present world.