The article whose title is above is published free online in today’s “The Catholic Thing”. The author is Hadley Arkes who is Ney Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Amherst College and the Founder/Director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights & the American Founding. His most recent book is Constitutional...
From St Cyprian’s treatise on the Lord’s Prayer: How great is the Lord’s indulgence! How kindly he bends down to us, how he overflows with goodness towards us! For he wishes us to pray in the sight of God in such a way as to call God Father and to...
At the beginning of Mass this morning, I promised I would upload a couple of prayers of St. Richard. Here they are (followed by the biography of him given in the Universalis App): His last prayer: “Thanks be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ, for all the benefits thou hast...
A Message from Bishop Nolan: “With many people hoping for a just and green recovery from covid, this document may prove useful. It suggests small lifestyle changes that individuals can undertake in order to help realise the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.”
From St. Cyprian’s Treatise on Prayer Above all, the Teacher of peace and Master of unity did not want prayer to be made singly and privately, so that whoever prayed would pray for himself alone. We do not say My Father, who art in heaven or Give me this day...
HOLY MASS ON THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS Sunday, 14 June 2020 [Multimedia] “Remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you” (Deut 8:2). Today’s Scripture readings begin with this command of Moses: Remember! ...
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Wednesday, 17 November 2010 [Video] Saint Juliana of Cornillon Dear Brothers and Sisters, This morning too I would like to introduce a female figure to you. She is little known but the Church is deeply indebted to her, not only because of the holiness of...
“On the feast of Corpus Christi”, by St Thomas Aquinas Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men gods. Moreover, when he took our flesh he dedicated the whole...
Readings: Deuteronomy 8:2-3,14-16; Psalm 147:12-15,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51-58 Self-isolation, social distancing, lockdown: these have become household terms since mid-March. We know what they mean. We understand they’re necessary. But the human cost of them is very real. We’re not made to relate to one another only in voice...
The Explanations of the Psalms by Saint Ambrose: Psalm 1 Although the whole of Scripture breathes God’s grace upon us, this is especially true of that delightful book, the book of the psalms. Moses, when he related the deeds of the patriarchs, did so in a plain and unadorned style....
