Our culture generates countless end-of-the-world scenarios, countless representations of apocalypse. They can be settings for comedy or drama or horror; they can also be incitements to political, ecological or religious...
What is sanctity? There are of course various ways in which we can try to think about it. One is this. Sanctity is our participation in God. What does this...
Early Irish poetry can be disorienting, to a poor modernist like me. I refer to verse from the sixth to ninth centuries, in Gaelic and in Latin (often with an...
Concerning John the Baptist we are told that "the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning [him], whether perhaps he were the Christ." And yet,...
Our Lord speaks of the individual forms and struggles of our lives which, whatever their intensities, unfold in the context of existence as we know it: "[Take] heed with yourselves...