Cardinal Zen’s Letter from the Heart to the College of Cardinals
(The following is excerpted from LifeSite news, and the full piece may be found here. For another take on the troubling situation in China, peruse also Douglas Farrow’s... Read more.
Christ is bathed in light; let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptized; let us also go down with him, and rise with him. (Saint Gregory Nazianzen, +390)... Read more.
The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God... Read more.
Go humbly, humble are the skies, And low and large and fierce the Star; So very near the Manger lies, That we may travel far. Hark! Laughter like a lion wakes, To... Read more.
Intending Death and Drinking Deep
January 7th was the fifth anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France, when the offices of the satirical magazine – which made fun of Catholicism as well... Read more.
I am nothing. Only a tool in the hands of providence; a lowly instrument at the service of St. Joseph (Saint Andre Bessette, +1937)... Read more.
This came to be fulfilled, as we know, from the time when the star beckoned the three wise men out of their distant country and led them to recognise and adore the... Read more.
The great mystery of the divine incarnation remains a mystery for ever. How can the Word made flesh be essentially the same person that is wholly with the Father?... Read more.
This indeed is that most Holy Name which was so desired by the patriarchs of old, so anxiously longed for, so long awaited with so much suffering, so much invoked... Read more.
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. (1 John 2:22)... Read more.