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Another typically brilliant piece from Where Peter Is

These guys never fail to be thoughtful. From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built […]

Avengers 1999!

The most astonishingly pitch-perfect mashup by a fan ever made.

Steven Greydanus on Avengers: Endgame

Steven and I have had a long-running gag “fight” going on about super-hero movies vs. totes adorbs little animals like these: or these: I go for the hearts and flowers because I care so much and have a soul as big as all outdoors. He defends supers with sophistry. I am plainly right. He is […]

I love Leah Libresco-Sargeant and I Love Everything She Says Here

She’s a far better disciple of Jesus than I am.

Prudence and Climate Change

Here’s a piece I just published with St. Anthony Messenger: Recently, Al Gore remarked, “I’m a Protestant, but I’ll tell you, because of Pope Francis, I really could become a Catholic.” His reason was not far to seek: “Now I was taught in my church that the purpose of life is to glorify God and […]

Why the Third Day?: Part 2

There are, in fact, a number of passages in the Old Testament which could be seen as foreshadows of the Resurrection.  For instance, the archetypal Third Day in the Creation narrative of Genesis tells us: And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land […]

Why the Third Day?: Part 1

The Resurrection is a work of God the Blessed Trinity.  All three Persons of the Godhead are involved and, as in all things, all three Persons operate in perfect harmony to accomplish it.  The Father “raised up” Christ his Son (Acts 2:24, 32). The Son declares, “I lay down my life, that I may take […]

Easter

Sonnet for Easter We are not damned for, but by, our sin. It was not God, but Judas, in pride, who twisted the straight rope, making his skin proof against mercy, bottling inside it a god of self who dealt out the curse. Peter, thrice the traitor Judas had been, sick unto death with cowardice […]

Holy Saturday

Limbo by Sister Mary Ada The ancient greyness shifted Suddenly and thinned Like mist upon the moors Before a wind. An old, old prophet lifted A shining face and said: “He will be coming soon. The Son of God is dead; He died this afternoon.” A murmurous excitement stirred All souls. They wondered if they […]

Good Friday

We are meant to feel that his life was in that sense a sort of love affair with death, a romance of the pursuit of the ultimate sacrifice. From the moment when the star goes up like a birthday rocket, to the moment when the sun is extinguished like a funeral torch, the whole story […]