Fifteen new saints and sixteen new blesseds were honored in the two canonization ceremonies and eleven beatification ceremonies that took place in 2024. Then, a week before Christmas, sixteen Discalced Carmelite nuns were canonized through […]
F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film Nosferatu is a landmark of early cinema, memorialized in the Catholic world by its inclusion on the 1995 Vatican Film List. In the opening title card, the film calls itself “a symphony […]
There are many problems with the education system in the United States and throughout Western society. These are problems in society as a whole, which have infected the education system. Literature studies are not immune. […]
“Then Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the Magi, was exceedingly angry; and he sent and slew all the boys in Bethlehem and all its neighborhood who were two years old or under…” […]
“If you could travel back in time to witness Jesus’ birth or any event in His life, would you do it?” Two enterprising Catholics posed this question to me during Advent. “Yes” was my unequivocal […]
Laudetur Jesus Christus. Sia lodato Gesù Cristo. Loué soit Jésus-Christ. Garbe Jezui Kristui. Niech będzie pochwalony Jezus Chrystus. Alabado sea Jesucristo. Slava Isusu Kristu. Praised be Jesus Christ. “Vere dignum et justum est.” Yes, how right […]
A surprising number of Christmas carols were written under extremely trying circumstances in the world or in the lives of their creators. One such carol is “Do You Hear What I Hear,” the lyrics of […]
Nick Kristof wants Jesus dead. The New York Times columnist has released another Christmas interview, this time with Princeton professor Elaine Pagels. The headlines, along with the online reaction, focused on Pagels’ denial of the virgin birth. As the […]
“Even though the New China continues to reject Christianity and tries to wipe away all traces of Christianity from its land, a dialog between Christianity and Mao’s ideology is essential.” — Fr. Domenico Grasso, SJi […]
If you haven’t read “Christmas Trees” by Robert Frost, it’s time. Here you are. It won’t take long, and then you’ll have it. But not “have” in the manner that the poem cautions against—that having that […]
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