June 8, 2019
I always think of Saint Philip Neri around Pentecost. You might’ve not heard of him; he’s less popular these days than he used to be.
May 26, 2019
The guardians of Plato’s just city had to be brave.
May 19, 2019
In George Orwell’s novel 1984—in that dark world, that dystopia—there is something called the “Two Minutes Hate.”
May 12, 2019
He talked of a kingdom, Jesus did. In him, it is “at hand,” he said.[1] It’s why we’re called to repent and believe, because it would be a fearful thing otherwise.
April 28, 2019
I call it the Second Struggle. After Easter, Peter and the disciples still needed to grow.
April 22, 2019
In the Seventh Circle of Hell, in Dante’s Inferno, in the circle of violence, is a rockslide, rubble as from an earthquake. It wasn’t always ruinous like this, this part of hell. It’s new, Virgil tells Dante; it wasn’t there the last time he came through. Earlier, Virgil had talked about it, the moment hell shook. […]