Homilies
November 28, 2021
“It obliges me,” Mark Twain once said, “to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man…since it now seems plain to me,” he continued, “that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one…the Descent of Man.”[1] It is a biting wit typical of Twain, and, of […]
December 12, 2021
In Advent the Church speaks to us quite clearly, actually.
December 19, 2021
In the final months of my life as an Anglican minister, in spiritual distress, I made my way to Walsingham in Norfolk to the shrines there dedicated to Our Lady—“England’s Nazareth,” it’s called.
