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October 2020

October 11, 2020

Mercy, Justice, and The Seventh Ecumenical Council

The Seventh Ecumenical Council, Nicea II, convened in 787, and officially declared the use and...

October 08, 2020

Pray For Trump, Pray For Mercy, And Pray For Justice

When it was declared that Trump was sick with COVID19, because they have grown not...

August 2020

August 25, 2020

Abba Theon And The Robbers

Abba Theon was an educated anchorite who lived in his cell for over thirty years....

April 2020

April 07, 2020

Grace or Judgment

The desert fathers and mothers wanted to establish a utopian like community in the desert....

January 2020

January 14, 2020

Anti-Popes, Anti-Traditionalism, and the Current Attacks on Pope Francis

The very nature of an anti-Pope is duplicitous, because, on the one hand, it is...

July 2019

July 11, 2019

Forgiveness, Debt Forgiveness, Student Loan Debt Forgiveness and the Gospel

When Peter asked about how many times he should forgive any offense he received from...

July 03, 2019

The Law and Jesus: How Christ’s Fulfillment Of The Law Should Lead Us To Reject The Death Penalty

Jesus came to fulfill the law. "Think not that I have come to abolish the...

December 2018

December 18, 2018

On The Patriarch Joseph and Jesus

St. Albert the Great, in his reflections upon the eucharist, saw in the story of...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

Pope Francis Tells Us Christ’s Answer

In the fifteenth century, the great theologian Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa dealt with many great...

November 2017

November 22, 2017

Legalistic Condemnation Must Give Way To The Humble Spirit Of Love

Abba Anthony predicted that this Abba Ammonas would make progress in the fear of God....

November 07, 2017

Mercy, Not Supernatural Signs, Is What We Need

Jesus warned us that we should not go to him seeking signs because it is...

November 02, 2017

Christians Must Say No to Trump’s Promotion of the Death Penalty

Recently, Pope Francis reiterated what Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI understood: the...

October 2017

October 05, 2017

Of Questions There Can Be No End

“My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end,...

September 2017

September 01, 2017

True Justice Is Distributive Not Retributive

The call of the Christian, the call of the one who has received forgiveness in...

August 2017

August 09, 2017

The One And Us

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD“ (Deut. 6:4 RSV). Despite some...

March 2017

March 14, 2017

Columbo And The Gospel

Coming from the tradition started by Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment, the television series Columbo,...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

Prodigal Pharisees

In the weeks before the Great Fast, Lent, the Byzantine tradition prepares the faithful with...

February 02, 2017

Push Not The Weak Into Sin

A brother in a monastery was falsely accused of fornication and he arose and went...

January 2017

January 23, 2017

Ossius of Cordova and Silence: Christ Can Even Save The Broken

St. Ossius of Cordova was one of the more influential and well respected bishop-confessors at...

November 2016

November 25, 2016

Sometimes, Silence is the Mercy

Coming soon to a theater near you is the film adaptation to Shusaku Endo's novel,...

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