The traveller through a strange country usually gets vivid impressions of individual things, but only a confused impression of the country in its totality. He remembers this mountain and that...
Let us revise the “Benedict option,” named by Rod Dreher, and proposed by him and many others. They invite us, in effect, to head for the hills, or to the...
Among books of spiritual direction, that are short, and in English, my favourite is probably The Cloud of Unknowing — written in Chaucer’s day by some anonymous cleric, perhaps a...
My head is full of Shakespeare Sonnets at the moment, from trying to teach this author to startlingly intelligent and perceptive young seminarians. The poet’s allusions to the ruined monasteries...
Funeral Mass of Michael Novak (1933-2017), Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Washington, D.C 25 February 2017 Homilist: Fr Derek Cross, of the Toronto Oratory Isaiah 53:1-6 Psalm 104 1 John 4:7-12, 15-20 John 14:15-31 Judas (not Iscariot)...