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April 2012

April 07, 2012

Venerate the Cross with Your Life

Do you ever have one of those days you wish you could bottle? Yesterday was...

April 07, 2012

Why on Earth Would We Call Yesterday ‘Good’?

Cardinal Dolan at my home cathedral yesterday.

April 07, 2012

Divinely Awesome

Describing a student studying St. Thomas on the existence of God, a priest said to...

April 07, 2012

Herod Lives — on Twitter

Twitter is a funny thing I still haven’t figured out how to use well. In...

April 07, 2012

This Current Silence

From a homily: ‘I command you: Awake, sleeper, I have not made you to be...

April 07, 2012

Holy Saturday, the Day of ‘the great Vigil of Resurrection conquest’

“Do not rush to the conquest,” the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus urged in his...

April 06, 2012

About Last Night

And for every night, morning, noon, and moment: Jesus struggles with the Father. He struggles...

April 06, 2012

Sin & Death, Disarmed & Defeated!

From B16’s Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: Because he is God, he sees with total...

April 06, 2012

Just One Look

When we gaze on the Blessed Sacrament, our Lord gives us this same look he...

April 05, 2012

A Luminous Gift

Fr. Victor Brown, O.P., writes: Shortly before his death, Pope Blessed John Paul II instituted...

April 04, 2012

Bristol Palin’s PSA for Confession

I am a few days late to reading this, but it deserves a link, I...

April 04, 2012

Telling the Truth

I thought this exchange from my interview with Philadelphia archbishop Charles Chaput was one we...

April 04, 2012

Be Still

Good prep reading from Fr. Raymond de Souza: I am drawn to the simple, solemn...

April 04, 2012

Subtle Witness

Getting on the Capitol South Metro stop in D.C. Tuesday night, I stood behind a...

April 03, 2012

All the World, Every One

Fr. George W. Rutler: The whole point of the Passion narrative is that the whole...

April 02, 2012

Words to Live This Week — and Our Lives — By

From Saint Augustine, from the Liturgy of the Hours today: The death of the Lord...

April 02, 2012

For the Holy Week Soundtrack

April 01, 2012

Palm Sunday Closing Thought

How do we ever read through that Gospel from today and not walk away unchanged?...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Where Are the Women? Taking Us to the Eucharist.

Since he is most noticed these days at congressional hearings, I thought you would enjoy...

March 30, 2012

Winning Souls with Hebrews

This is about the moment during some Lents where I have been known to panic....

March 30, 2012

Winning Souls with Cardinal Dolan

What’s Holy Week about? Cardinal Dolan takes a stab at in a web video: “Passing...

March 30, 2012

Did You Read Magnificat Last Sunday? It May Just Draw You to Christ.

This one comes from the late British poet Caryll Houselander: Look at this cross,...