Benedict XVI: The Face of God and the Cross of Christ
Yesterday, in his Palm Sunday homily, Pope Benedict XVI returned to what has become a leitmotif in his preaching: the Face of God. The Holy...
Into the Harbour of the Sacred Passion
A Word Out of Silence The chant of the Passion plunges us into silence. The Word has been silenced. Only a fool would dare to...
In Voluntate Tua
Guercino’s (1591–1666) Crowning With Thorns depicts two attitudes toward the Suffering Christ. On the one hand we see a soldier clad in armour. With a...
Pope Benedict XVI on Reparation
At a February 22, 2007 meeting of the Roman clergy with Pope Benedict XVI, Don Alberto Pacini, Rector of the Basilica of Sant’Anastasia, spoke of...
Ecce Agnus Dei
For Sidney Some time ago, a remarkable young man named Sidney wrote me from Brazil to ask for a blessed Agnus Dei. I promised him...