Last week, at our annual Living With Christ dinner and lecture, it was snowing hard. It was snowing really hard: huge gusts of wind, thick heavy flakes falling to blanket the streets with wet slush. And I am astounded and…
To mark tonight’s Inaugural Living with Christ Lecture, we share with you a brief excerpt from the speaker’s book Divine Renovation: From a Maintenance to a Missional Parish. Fr. James Mallon is pastor of St. Benedict’s Parish in Halifax, Nova Scotia…
“I am well aware that the material in this book is only a smattering of what family prayer can entail,” says Kathy Hendricks in the closing pages of her book: “Some of it will fit your family while other parts…
In honour of the announcement of Br. Guy Consolmagno’s reception of the renowned Carl Sagan Medal “for outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public,” we share with you a brief excerpt from his essay “Faith and the…
Once again we come to that time of the year when we hear some people lament the early appearance of Christmas decorations in stores and holiday commercials on TV. More often than not the objections are either that the season…
Let us pray today for all those who gave of their lives in service of our country. “Almighty ever-living God, hear our prayers for those who died in defence of country and freedom; grant them eternal rest, and peace to us…
I wonder if anyone remembers SparkNotes. SparkNotes were big back in middle school—they were more or less the same thing as Cliff’s Notes. At first it was a website where you did quizzes like “How evil are you?” and “Who’s…
Daylight comes late and ends early in November. The cooling temperatures and shorter days are harbingers of the looming winter, but also of the spiritual season of Advent. This pre-Christmas period is a time of preparation, of “making straight” the…
Ambrose. Charles Borromeo. Alfredo Schuster. Giovanni Montini. Milan has witnessed some of the greatest bishops in Church history. Of its bishops, two have been elected pope. Dozens of saints have sat in the cathedra of that great and historic diocese.…
Dorothy Day, the renowned founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, once said in her later years: “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.” Years after her death, she must be looking down from heaven,…