The most important assumption to note today is that of the Mother of God into heaven. Among Eastern Christians, that reality is known as the...

The unregenerate Scrooge got and gets a bum rap. Of course he was cruel, selfish, cynical, and unbelieving. But so are all of us, to the e...

The primary trinity of days in the Christian religion is the Easter Triduum: Holy Thursday evening, centered on the Mass of the Lord's S...

As individual Christians, including and especially as contemporary Catholics, we tend to forget that  it's not about you.  I was reminde...

Paul Cella and Lydia McGrew have posted excellent observations for today at W4. I have only one thing to add. As Lydia implied, the United...

I thought I'd observe the feast of St. Anselm today by pointing readers to a truly remarkable little essay by Brandon Watson on Anselm...

In this year of St. Paul, it's worth noting for the Easter season something he says about the Resurrection: "If Christ be not risen...

Today is a good day to meditate on two kinds of descent into hell: the kind some people undergo by refusing to repent of serious sin, and t...

Today, in the calendar for the Roman liturgy according to the ordinary form, we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord . In the New Testament, th...

The 14th-century Dominican Johann Tauler wrote as follows on the Gospel for today's feast in the Roman calendar for the ordinary form of...

No, I don't mean Sarah Palin, though I would enjoy applying that theme to her. I mean the Mother of God. Today is the Feast of Our Lady ...

I had meant to post this yesterday, the feast of Mary's birthday, but got rather full of myself writing about freedom . Still, I remain ...

If all goes as planned and prayed, this will be my last post at this blog. I have launched a new blog at Wordpress called Philosophia Perenn...

On this Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, I just thought it appropriate to post this vignette from the pro-life front.

Today is the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, who were martyred in Rome together. The Church of Rome still "has the bones"--a fac...

No, I don't mean the scrap commonly thrown to divorced dads if they're lucky, though meditation on today's liturgical theme migh...

The Transportation Security Administration is supposed to protect air travelers from terrorism. Given the results of various tests since 200...

For the benefit of the few readers who don't already know, I note that today's feast in the Roman calendar, the Baptism of the Lord ...

The title under which the Virgin Mary is honored by today's feast is the most sublime title a human being could bear. I don't know q...

The following homily for today's feast is by one of my favorite preachers, Fr. Robert Altier: Today as we celebrate this feast of the H...