"Mary is humanity’s first and flawless response to Christ."

Desde 1993 cientos de mujeres han sido asesinadas al rededor de Ciudad Juárez, atreves de la frontera con El Paso.

"There must be a place where the innocent will not suffer, where they will find refuge."

Part of what has been keeping me off the blogosphere has been a collection of issues such as illness two bad colds in quick succession the SBL Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings and Thanksgiving This is enough to grind writing for a blog to a standstill but there is still another

Upon assuming the crown, Queen Elizabeth I, famously told her subjects, “I have no desire to make windows into men’s souls.”  

The Feast of Christ the King is a relatively new feast It was first declared by Pope Pius XI in 1925 at a time of heightened nationalism and secularism Its biblical origins are very deep going back to the anointing of kings like David in ancient Israel as we hear in the opening reading In the N