By the time the blessing was over, all of us were in tears, struck by the profundity of what we had just witnessed. 

Last Tuesday — the first day of no public Masses in our diocese — I was reminded of this scene from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited".

Sin, by its very nature, is a direct attack upon or a violation of some good.

The question of whether everyone is saved.

A pamphlet at my local parish caught my eye recently. 

At times, priests reveal intimate secrets about themselves from the pulpit. 

As I have been reading Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s book, Christus Vincit, I am struck by the similarities between his experiences and mine.

A grave deficiency of modern times is the loss of the sense that our lives are caught up in a tremendous, epic battle. 

Who the "Wise Men" were is a recurring question for inventive debate, but the point is that these sophisticated scholars were from "a foreign country."

An architect knows where all the doors in a house will lead because he designed it.