While frequent Confession is important to growing in oneโs spiritual life, there is also a beneficial practice we can all do every day at home: make a daily examination of conscience.ย But what does this term โexamination of conscienceโ mean...
Whatever happened to sin? For the answer to this perplexing question, simply replace the question mark with a period. What happened to sin is that the โwhateverโ perspective on right and wrong has rendered sin archaic. When whatever feels...
Once there was an older, very stern, upright, humorless womanโweโll call her Mrs. Pendergastโwho wasnโt feeling well. She went to see a doctor, who began by asking her some routine questions. โDo you drink at all...
The feast of the nativity of St John the Baptist is certainly characterised by joy, which the Latin word for it is gaudium. Interestingly enough we are not talking aboutย felicitas, happiness, butย gaudium,ย joy. The collect for the Mass during...
At the core of the human person is the most essential duty, the duty to worship God and live according to His commands.ย On the day that we die, it is not to any government that we will answer, nor to any person, not even to the leaders of the...
I was born almost 12 hours before the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I remember seeing the Vietnam War on TV but as a child, it didnโt mean much.ย I saw Nixon getting on a helicopter leaving the White House after his resignation. I remember Ronald...
When I was younger, I recall being asked if I was allergic to โeggsโ before I got a flu shot.ย Oh, for the good old days.ย Vaccines were produced in eggs and no one worried about the morality of a vaccine. Today is different. A COVID-19 vaccine cannot...
There are moments in the life of the Church and society when public issues become the occasion for reassessing our conduct, to ensure that it lines up with Christ.ย Now is such a moment.ย Fears of this coronavirus have spread throughout the world and...