Christmas Zeal
Christmas is a time when Christians are particularly susceptible to one of the perennial temptations of religion: domesticating the gospel.
On Baptism
Baptism is an apocalypse.
Newman on Self-deception and Self-knowledge
The way truly to know ourselves is not idly to look within ourselves, but rather to look away from ourselves at the one who calls us by name, who commands us to love him by loving our neighbor, who sends us into the vineyard to work today.
Gregory the Great on Compassion and Contemplation
What is the relationship between pastoral ministry and the Christian vocation of contemplation?
The Wonderful and Strange Name of Jesus
When we say the name Jesus, we are identifying someone who is incommunicably singular and inexhaustibly strange.
Degrees of Beauty
Visible and audible beauty is not a gratuitous irradiation of a prior and more central value, but rather adheres directly to the material objects because of their form and color.
Penitential Solidarity
As we continue to discover abuse, Pope Francis and others are rightly leading the whole Church in this corporate confession of sin.
Attending to Creation’s Wonder
St Basil: “I want creation to penetrate you with so much admiration that everywhere, wherever you may be, the least plant may bring to you the clear remembrance of the Creator.”