December 20, 2019

Be Like Joseph

Matthew tells us Joseph was “righteous.” Which means, being a good Jew, that he was righteous before not only God, but the Law.
December 17, 2019

True Festivity, Or, On Reading Josef Pieper at Christmas

“Bustle does not make a festival; on the contrary, it can spoil one.”
December 12, 2019

Something Beautiful for God

Where Christ is, there is healing. That’s how we know he’s present.
December 9, 2019

Homily: The Immaculate Warmth of Grace

It’s beautiful, really. The Church seems to say that if you know anything about parental love, then you know about grace. If either you’re a parent yourself, or if you have been blessed by the genuine love of your mother or father; then, the Church suggests, you already know a great deal about the grace of […]
December 8, 2019

Column: Civil War or Reign of Terror?

Are we headed for civil war?
December 8, 2019

Homily: Laughing at Prophets

To listen to this homily click here. Yves Congar, the great twentieth century Dominican theologian, in a book he wrote a little more than a decade before the Second Vatican Council (a book which by the way influenced the future Pope John XXIII), said in rather a matter of fact way, but mystically nonetheless, that “Prophecy […]