“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…

February 2023

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…

December 2022

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…

November 2022

The Old Man isn’t who I thought he was.
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October 2022

"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…

September 2022

An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging…

August 2022

This week, it was reported that the cause for sainthood for Father Vincent Capodanno was recommended for suspension. Among the concerns raised by the…
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The disciples approached him and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” He said to them in reply, “Because knowledge of the mysteries of the…
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July 2022

[A] program should always respond to the user in the way that astonishes him least. —Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming" I’m trying to be more…
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