“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined” (Is 9:1). “An angel of the Lord appeared to [the shepherds] […]
(December 22, 2014, Information Resource of the UGCC) The first step toward unity of the Churches in Ukraine “must be the unification of the Orthodox Churches, because they have no dogmatic difference,” the Head of […]
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Since it is almost Christmas Eve, I thought I would share a wonderful quote I came across earlier this Advent, from an essay by G.K. Chesterton about Santa Claus. [I]f an example be required to […]
A few days before Christmas, I checked the schedule for Turner Classic Movies, one of the few TV channels I watch. I was looking for Christmas movies, maybe the 1938 Reginald Owen version of “A […]
Where, exactly, does Pope Francis stand on economic matters? While the Pontiff’s pronouncements are abundant, they are far less systematic and scholarly than they are pastoral in nature. Thus, we are frequently left wondering what […]
Let’s face it, 2014 was a rotten year for heroes and hero worship. Sure, it brought forth plucky, admirable people who did praiseworthy things. But all too often their good deeds were upstaged by the […]
The late Father Andrew Greeley, the dean of American Catholic sociologists, was a habitually angry man, at various times angry at the American Catholic theological establishment because his sister failed to get tenure at a […]
George Weigel’s essay, “Between Two Synods”, for the January 2015 issue of First Things is an important piece for at least three reasons. First, he masterfully summarizes what happened at the Synod, without recourse to […]
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