An American “Newman”
I am reading for the second or third time a splendid old biography of American Passionist Father Fidelis of the Cross (1840-1921), one of the...
Prayer Ever on Your Lips
I first read the life of the heroic Father Willie Doyle, S.J. by Alfred O’Rahilly forty years ago. It was the summer of 1968, and...
Nihil Amori Christi Praeponere
Saints Benedict and Paul This Solemnity of Our Father Saint Benedict, falling in the Pauline Year, invites us — I want to say, compels us...
Dominus meus et Deus meus
Where deep the spear had pierced, there Thomas searched thy side, Whence for the nations’ health, poured forth the healing tide; By this and each...
After First Vespers of Midsummer Day
Oh, the joy of First Vespers of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist: a glorious set of antiphons and (in the monastic Office) an...