-
Sep 16, 2024
Courage, says Thomas Aquinas, is essential to the practice of all the virtues. You may know what the just or the prudent thing to do is, but without courage, you will not do it,...
-
Jul 30, 2024
If all are saved—and I do not wish to argue the matter here—what is this life for? Position in Heaven? But many of the same people in our time who push the notion of...
-
Jul 29, 2024
People will worship. They will bow down in homage to a person or a thing; perhaps to some idol of themselves. They will obey, and they will be all the more...
-
Jun 13, 2024
In general, though, the more sharply distinct the liturgy is from the mundane, the better. If you want lousy music, you don’t have to haul yourself to church to get it. It is...
-
Jun 6, 2024
The divide in our Church between people who believe in the richness and the rightness of her theological tradition and those who do not is, in many ways, not an equal divide....
-
Apr 18, 2024
They say that when you are old and losing your memory, music is the last to go. An old woman who cannot carry on a conversation may join in a song she knew when she was a girl,...
-
Feb 22, 2024
Young people, we are told, and we have eyes to see it, are unhappy. Those in the pharmaceutical industry are aware of the vein of gold that depression has opened up, with ordinary...
