Happy New Year to All Our Readers, in Music and Song
A blessed Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, known more commonly in the secular world, if that is not tautological, as New Year’s Day – and a happy one... Read more.
As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live. (Pope Saint John Paul II, Homily given in Perth, Australia, 1986)... Read more.
Whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the... Read more.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him... Read more.
And so the love that brought Christ from heaven to earth raised Stephen from earth to heaven; shown first in the king, it later shone forth in his soldier. Love... Read more.
For what greater grace could God have made to dawn on us than to make his only Son become the son of man, so that a son of man might in his turn become son of God?... Read more.
With his humility went a rare and childlike simplicity: the thoughts of his heart were revealed in his words and actions. If he suspected that someone had taken... Read more.
An Open Letter to the French Speaking Bishops of Canada
(This is a crie-de-couer from a group of long-suffering young people in Quebec, hungering for the fullness of the Faith, of which they feel themselves robbed or,... Read more.
Never was a whimpering bit of humanity so powerful that, while lying on His bed of straw, He could command the very stars to direct whom He wished to visit Him.... Read more.
You have heard, O Virgin, that you will conceive and bear a son; you have heard that it will not be by man but by the Holy Spirit. The angel awaits an answer; it... Read more.