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Last week I was in Bloomington Indiana where I gave a retreat on the Apocalypse.  The retreat conferences should be up on AirMaria at some point in the near future, at which time…

“Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.”…

Homily for the Feast of the Miraculous Medal Download: 20131127-122307.mp3 Filed under: homilies, Liturgy, Religion Tagged: Immaculate Conception, Miraculous Medal, St. Catherine Laboure From MaryVictrix.com

Homily for the Feast of St. Andrew Download: 20131130-122424.mp3 Filed under: Catholicism, homilies, Liturgy, Religion, Spirituality Tagged: Apostolicity, Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, St. Andrew From MaryVictrix.com

In the above photograph Fr. Fidenzio Volpi, Apostolic Commissioner of the Franciscans of the Immaculate greets the Holy Father at the latter’s arrival at St. Mary Major on December 8th.  The Friars of…

Fr. Z. and the Neo-Orthodoxy More traditional than the Pope and letting him know it.Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Evangelii Gaudium, Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Pope Francis From MaryVictrix.com

Inconvenient Facts If Rorate Caeli calls it “nakedly biased,” you can be sure it contains facts they would rather you completely disregard.Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, Michael Miller, Pat…

Moonless darkness stands between. Past, the Past, no more be seen! But the Bethlehem-star may lead me To the sight of Him Who freed me From the self that I have been. Make…

Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth; and there were peals of thunder, voices, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.…

On the occasion of his seventh visit to Saint Mary Major, on Wednesday afternoon, Pope Francis met a group of Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate who serve in the Liberian Basilica, exhorting them…

Rorate Caeili posted a translation of an article by Corrado Gnerre from Il Giudizio Cattolico, entitled “Who are the real ‘Christian Ideologues’?”, which addresses Pope Francis’ critique of ideology within the Church. While…

Did you know that the Jordan River Valley is actually the deepest valley on earth? In Christ’s Baptism, creation opens at her depths to receive her Creator; the heavenly Bridegroom “espouses” the earth…

It is with sadness, but confidence that I entrust here to the mercy of God the soul of Gabriel Altieri, a father figure, a spiritual son and a great friend.  After a long fight…

This is the Christmas story in a nutshell: The Infinite One has wed himself to our finite humanity. This is what we’re preparing ourselves for during Advent. And this is why Advent is a time of desire: The…

I have been in Rome for nearly a month now, working on the details of my studies. Nothing definite to report there. On Sunday a group of us were privileged to attend the…