The Light of Christ Defeats the Darkness of Idolatry
“For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.” (Psalm 96)
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On These Last Days Of December
This week, we are especially reminded that the Maker of the universe “became his own making” — and that Christ and his saints were born in order to die.
The Incarnation of Jesus Christ and the Problem With Plato
Amid the silence of the stars, God truly comes into our world — an event that renders everything different.
On Being Good Because God Is
If to do evil is permitted only in a world without God, it follows that to do good becomes possible only in a world where there is God.
On Monks and Mothers and the Mystery of Life
If we reject the truth that sex is about babies, then it is not likely that we shall survive, or that we deserve to.
Waiting for God: An Advent Meditation
“Be sure of this,” Our Lord tells us. “If the master of the house had known the hour of the night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into.”
Becoming a Christian — How Does That Happen?
The Church draws people not just for personal or pragmatic or political or therapeutic reasons, but because the Catholic Thing is true.
Death Is Not the End
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally/And death shall be no more; death thou shalt die.” —John Donne, Sonnet X
![Peter Paul Rubens [1577-1640], “St. Augustine of Hippo with Christ and the Virgin Mary”](https://publisher-publish.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20201103151116_7309671ae4616a5df6999c919680b3e18148159a40567a82f4a9ab53b47110bd.jpeg "Peter Paul Rubens [1577-1640], “St. Augustine of Hippo with Christ and the Virgin Mary”")
Only One Thing is Necessary: Cleaving to Jesus Christ
How are we to find God, whom we cannot see? The answer is by turning to Christ, God incarnate, whom we can see.
The Church Can’t Change Christ’s Doctrine and Won’t Give Up on Souls
“Respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions.”
