“You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds.” —St. Thomas More On March 2, Cardinal McElroy published an essay…
All which thy child’s mistake Fancies as lost, I have stored for thee at home: Rise, clasp My hand, and come! —The Hound of Heaven, Francis Thompson In…
For many reasons, the past few days have brought to my mind the way we say goodbye to each other. Sometimes we utter the word expecting our parting to…
This past Christmas Eve, 2022, in the bleak midwinter, during the blizzard in Buffalo that claimed at least 30 lives, a man named Jay Withey became…
Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents. It is a somber reminder for us that the wood of the Cradle is never separated from the wood of the Cross. The…
Like many of you, I have been saying the St. Andrew novena this Advent. “Hail and blessed be the hour and moment In which the Son of God was born Of the…
The Old Man isn’t who I thought he was.
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"Joy, which is the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian." —G.K. Chesterton I've had a couple different friends ask me…
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