I wanted to take this opportunity to invite any interested readers who find themselves in the Twin Cities area on October 18th to attend my Archbishop Ireland Memorial Lecture The Child in the Family of God This lecture if free and open to the public and will be based upon research found in Let

The Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary is a celebration of prayer and in particular for thanksgiving of the naval victory over the Turks at the battle of Lepanto on October 7 1571 According to catholicculture org ldquo The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was instituted to honor Mary for the Chri

In a recent post in First Things Elizabeth Scalia in trying to position the dissent of Cardinal John Henry Newman offers that there ought not to be a gulf in Catholic thinking between faith and reason or in her words ldquo intellectual rigor and loyalty are not mutually exclusive rdquo Ther

I woke up with this song and the first lyric running through my mind As I walked my dog this early morning which seems appropriate the rest of this nbsp ode to Saint Francis of Assisi came to me by way of the great Sam Cooke It seems that hardly anyone throughout Christian history has been so f

Sometimes the relationship amongst the lectionary readings are clear and seem obviously so sometimes the relationships are not so obvious The three readings for the Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Habakkuk 1 2-3 2 2-4 2 Timothy 1 6-8 13-14 and Luke 17 5-10 do not seem obviously related

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp This Sunday Gospel reading consists of two distinct parts first there is a request answered by criticism and second Jesus offers a parable about a servant nbsp Though our reading is verses 5-10 I think it useful if not nbsp necessary to intepret them as comments on th