Our eschatology became focused upon place rather than person, but that is a fundamental distortion of the Gospel preached by the disciples.

A life lived in the Gospel makes demands upon us. If it does not, we need to look again. Maybe we are not living such a life.

With Vatican II and the return of the sacred liturgy to the faithful, Corpus Christi seemed to become a relic of an earlier, deprived spirituality. But the church tends to rearrange her treasures rather than abandon them.

Even with the clarity of later church teaching, we still struggle to avoid a multitude of misleading notions about the Most Holy Trinity. One such misconception comes from the ancient institution we call monarchy.

The Holy Spirit exists because the Father and the Son, together, are more than the sum of their parts.

The Lord did not withhold his kingdom from his first disciples, nor does he keep it from us.

The great mistake that many make in what they call their spiritual lives is to believe that they do not need words to be in communion with God.

It is faith that makes us ready for heaven. And what is faith? Stubbornly seeing purpose in this life—stubbornly because sometimes it does take a great effort—that others cannot see.

Young advocates of the Tridentine liturgy like to believe that it was always celebrated with great beauty and dignity. Older Catholics know that this is not true.

The question and the charge we are given by the Lord remains the same: Do you love me? Keep your eyes on me!