If it causes pain, it cannot be true. This principle, it seems to me, is an unspoken premise underlying the general public’s passionate opposition to
With 2017 comes the 100th Anniversary of the Fatima event which is an extraordinary part in the Church’s rich history and so, as with most
Today, on the Solemnity of the Ascension, we celebrate Jesus’s rising into Heaven. Whenever I reflect upon this mystery, while I know it’s supposed to
He has Risen, He has Risen indeed. Praise the Lord, Glory and Alleluia. I do not think I have ever been so starved to speak
Christ’s Resurrection is one that will never be repeated. That Resurrection is the ultimate victory of light over darkness. In our lives, we wait for
At the start of Holy Week, the alarming news came from Singapore — my mother was suffering a stroke, after miraculously surviving a five-day brain
…do we celebrate Easter Sunday. This always has to come before, and is always followed by Have you ever stopped to consider the fact that
In roughly 24 hours, the Sacred Triduum will begin. During these three days, the Church commemorates in a solemn manner the Passion, Death, and Burial
The end is in sight! Some of us may have persevered relentlessly with our Lenten practices, and others may have struggled a bit here and
Newly-ordained Fr. Al Schwartz stepped off the train in Seoul, South Korea, into a zombie apocalypse. It was 1957, and the devastation wreaked by the
