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The return of the martyrs
St. John Paul II (Tertio Millennio Adveniente)
Monday, February 24, 2020
Understanding America
Joseph Ratzinger
Friday, February 21, 2020
Progress and conservation
Pope St. Pius X
Thursday, February 20, 2020
A new song to the Lord
Psalm 96
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Art: a path to the inmost reality of man
Pope St. John Paul II
Monday, February 17, 2020
The Noble Savage
Charles Dickens (1853)
Friday, February 14, 2020
Still Falls the Rain
Edith Sitwell
Thursday, February 13, 2020
None but the prudent
Joseph Pieper
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
The law behind all laws
Benedict XVI
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
In the Valley of the Elwy
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Monday, February 10, 2020
Why same-sex unions are wrong
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Friday, February 7, 2020
Robbing the people to pay Peter
Francis X. Rocca
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Dear laypeople
Dear laypeople
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
The last word on hell
C.S. Lewis
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Eucharist and resurrection
Pope St. John Paul II
Monday, February 3, 2020
Thomas Becket on martyrdom
T.S. Eliot
Friday, January 31, 2020
A well-formed conscience
USCCB
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Singing of the Source and Course of Holy Church
Wu Li*
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The little boy lost
William Blake
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
The Collar
George Herbert
Monday, January 27, 2020
Defeating the culture of death
Pope St. John Paul II
Friday, January 24, 2020
On ecumenism
Vatican II
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Remembering my father
Wendell Berry
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell
Denise Levertov
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Political responsibilities of Catholics
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Monday, January 20, 2020
Wars and rumors of wars
Pope Benedict XV
Friday, January 17, 2020
Man is the way of the Church
St. John Paul II (Centesimus Annus)
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Winter Mask
Allen Tate
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The seeds of despotism
Abraham Lincoln
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Lament of the Frontier Guard
Rihaku (trans. Ezra Pound)
Monday, January 13, 2020
Pharaoh’s way
St. John Paul II
Friday, January 10, 2020
On miracles
C.S. Lewis
Thursday, January 9, 2020
True liberty
Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed
Hilaire Belloc
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Pilate is taken aback
Pope Benedict XVI
Monday, January 6, 2020
from Canto CXV
Ezra Pound
Friday, January 3, 2020
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
T. S. Eliot
Thursday, January 2, 2020
The World’s Desire
G. K. Chesterton
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
The Oxen
Thomas Hardy
Monday, December 23, 2019
The Passion of Our Lady
Charles Péguy
Friday, December 20, 2019
Justice
Rudyard Kipling
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
What is blasphemy?
St. Alphonsus Liguori
Monday, December 16, 2019
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
T.S. Eliot
Friday, December 13, 2019
Materialist inhumanity
G. K. Chesterton
Thursday, December 12, 2019
The power of music at Mass
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
O Store Gud (O Great God)
Carl Gustav Boberg
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Hymn
Edgar Allan Poe
Monday, December 9, 2019
On evolution
Benedict XVI
Friday, December 6, 2019
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Dylan Thomas
Thursday, December 5, 2019
