How can women come to have a proper perception of their own beauty?

With the sudden death of Cardinal George Pell, the Church has lost the earthly company of a wise, loving, joyful, and courageous shepherd.

Mortimer Adler (1902–2001) was a widely influential philosopher and educator in 20th-century America.

"[T]he whole of man, soul and body, is nourished sanely by a multiplicity of observed traditional things." - Hilaire Belloc, A Remaining Christmas

Perhaps we have found ourselves there. With the man lying on the side of the road, beaten down by the Accuser, wounded by our sins, feeling lifeless and alone.

Kindness, American style, detached from the Man upon the cross, has turned sour and sickly. It can justify anything.

It was fully my intention to have all of the Winona-Rochester seminarians stand at one point during my installation Mass homily.

How do we miss the child in Christ?

We sometimes do not love those people or those things we think we love. We may also love and not be aware of it. But the human heart, without grace, hardly beats at all. It is a tangle of vipers, and when it beats, it squeezes out its poison.

Last week, I met with the deans of our diocese to discuss a number of issues, the most prominent of which was the ongoing process of merging some of our parishes and reorganizing others into clusters.