All sins are despised by God, especially pride. My beloved, rebuke yourselves, and confess your own sins, so that God my elevate you (Saint Anthony of Egypt, +356)
Year: 2023
Second Sunday: The Lamb of God and the Culture Wars
‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!’ (Jn. 1:29). ⧾ This declaration made by John the Baptist and which we hear before the reception of Holy Communion at every Mass, is a succinct summary of the mission of the Messiah. As presented in the gospels, Our Lord’s Baptism is[…]
Cardinal Pell’s Last Words
I don’t know the final, final words of Cardinal George Pell as he lay in his hospital bed, but here is the last article he had published, in the Spectator, a fitting testament to the state of the Church, a warning and a clarion call to all of us. Vere, libera nos a Malo! +[…]
Searching and Confessing: Augustine of Hippo’s Quench for Wisdom and Truth
Here in Malta, on January 13th, there will be the launching of a book about Saint Augustine of Hippo named: Searching and Confessing. Augustine of Hippo’s Quench for Wisdom and Truth. Malta: Augustinian Province, 2023 (ISBN: 978-9918-0-0430-0). Searching and Confessing is a recent publication of the Augustinian Professor Fr Salvino Caruana. The book of 255 pages[…]
The Wages of Liberation Theology
On January 1, Brazil recognized its new president, a socialist. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in with an elaborate inauguration ceremony before a crowd much smaller than any of those supporting his populist opponent, Jair Bolsonaro, who had served a president for four years. Lula’s swearing in was the result of an October[…]
The Algorithm of the Antichrist
What form will the antichrist take? Our Catholic tradition holds that he will be man, filled with evil, under a hypocritical façade of goodness, which will deceive many, but only because they want to be deceived. Beneath that veneer, he will hate Christ, His Church, all He stands for, and, yes, all of us Catholics,[…]
The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable. (Saint Hilary of Poitiers, +367)
Pledging Allegiance
As the aphorism goes, pictures speak a thousand words, as we witness societal devolution over the span of a few decades. School have become dangerous, even scandalous, places for children. Woe to those by whom…well, you get the rest.
Teaching is the work most suited to draw down the graces of God if it is done with purity of intention, without distinction between the poor and the rich, between relatives and friends and strangers, between the pretty and the ugly, the gentle and the grumblers, looking upon them all as drops of Our Lord’s[…]
Cardinal Pell, Rest in Peace
George Cardinal Pell died yesterday, suffering a heart attack after what seemed to be routine hip surgery. Requiescat in pace. He was 81, and lived a long and full life, serving the Church in Australia, appointed archbishop of Melbourne by Pope Saint John Paul II in . He was an advisor to the pontiff,[…]