In the Gospel on the last Sunday in Advent, Joseph was to welcome Mary and her C...
The day after Christmas is the feast of St. Stephen, deacon and martyr, and an i...
Christmas is quickly approaching, and remembering to recognize it as a season of...
Pour forth we beseech thee, O Lord,Thy grace into our heartsThat we to whom the ...
The Christmas season has many associations within the culture and the Church. Fo...
The Completion of the Advent Ignatian Meditation Retreat Lord Jesus Christ,You h...
Christmas Day: The Fulfillment of Advent Advent has a way of quietly correcting ...
Ancient thinkers—both philosophers and scientists—of the Mediterranean world kne...
Two colleagues of mine from the university, though brought up as Catholics, deci...
In the late night hours of Christmas Eve 2005, I sat on the floor of our family ...
At a recent Lay Dominican meeting, we discussed the importance of studying the l...
As I drove through the neighborhood after dropping my daughter off for a babysit...
On this last Sunday of Advent, our Gospel calls us to reflect on Joseph, not Mar...
Quia fecisti nos ad Te, et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in Te.“You...
We speak often of Mary’s Fiat, and rightly so. Her yes stands at the center of s...
My family still celebrates St. Nicholas day on December 6th, a tradition my wife...
There’s a peculiar temptation today to imagine medieval courts as grim theaters ...
John the Baptist had a grim message for the Pharisees and Sadducees who came to ...
The Italian idiom Per fare San Pietro c’è voluto tempo (“It took time to build S...
