Controversial Images
Scene from The Passion of the Christ EVERY day as I comb the news headlines, I am faced with the violence and evil of this world. I find it exhausting, but also recognize it as my duty as a...
View ArticleImages Moving Hearts
I HAVE received a landslide of replies to my last two meditations on the unborn. There is a strong sense from nearly all those who have written that these images are necessary in the battle to end...
View ArticleThe Hour of Decision
SINCE this was first posted, September 7th, 2008, the decision has been made in Canada: there will be no protection for the unborn, no end to abortion in sight. And now, America faces its greatest...
View ArticleThe School of Compromise
Betrayed By a Kiss, by Michael D. O’Brien TO enter "the school of love" does not mean one must suddenly enroll in "the school of compromise." By this I mean that love, if it is genuine, is always...
View ArticleCounting the Cost
First published March 8th, 2007. THERE are rumblings throughout the Church in North America about the growing cost of speaking the truth. One of them is the potential loss of the coveted...
View ArticleSo, You Saw Him Too?
The Man of Sorrows, by Matthew Brooks YEAR FOR PRIESTS 2009 – 2010 IN my travels throughout Canada and the United States, I have been blessed to spend time with some very beautiful and holy...
View ArticleWill He Find Faith?
IT was a five and a half hour drive from the airport to the remote community in Upper Michigan where I was to give a retreat. I knew of this event for months, but it wasn’t until I began my journey...
View ArticleThe Hard Truth — Part V
Unborn Baby at 8 Weeks Lobster First published December 15th, 2006… this writing is never far from my thoughts. I have updated it...
View ArticleMy People Are Perishing
Peter Martyr Enjoins Silence, Fra Angelico EVERYONE’S talking about it. Hollywood, secular newspapers, news anchors, evangelical Christians… everyone, it seems, but the bulk of the Catholic Church....
View ArticleThe Hard Truth — Part II
WHY? Why would the Catholic Church be against love? That is the question many people ask when it comes to the Church’s prohibition against gay marriage. Two people want to get married because...
View ArticleIs a Fetus a Person?
Unborn baby at 20 weeks In the course of my travels, I lost track of local news and did not learn until recently that back home, in Canada, the government is going to vote on Motion 312 this week....
View ArticleLove and Truth
THE greatest expression of Christ’s love was not the Sermon on the Mount or even the multiplication of the loaves. It was on the Cross. So too, in The Hour of Glory for the Church, it will be...
View ArticleFirst Love Lost
FRANCIS, AND THE COMING PASSION OF THE CHURCHPART II by Ron DiCianni EIGHT years ago, I had a powerful experience before the Blessed Sacrament1 where I felt the Lord asked me to put my music ministry...
View ArticleI Will Not Bow
THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGSfor April 9th, 2014Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent Liturgical texts here NOT negotiable. That was essentially the reply of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego when King...
View ArticleThey Will Not See
THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGSfor April 11th, 2014Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent Liturgical texts here THIS generation is like a man standing on a beach, watching a ship disappear over the...
View ArticleYou Were Born for This Time
THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGSfor April 15th, 2014Tuesday of Holy Week Liturgical texts here AS you peer out at the Storm that is roiling on the horizon of humanity, you might be tempted to say,...
View ArticleThe Eclipse of Reason
THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS for May 5th, 2014Monday of the Third Week of Easter Liturgical texts here SAM Sotiropoulos was only asking the Toronto Police force a simple question: if Canada’s...
View ArticleThe Masters of Conscience
THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS for May 6th, 2014Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter Liturgical texts here IN every age, in every dictatorship, whether it is a totalitarian government or an abusive...
View ArticleThe Two Temptations
THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS for May 23rd, 2014 Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter Liturgical texts here THERE are two powerful temptations that the Church is going to face in the days ahead to...
View ArticleThe Incurable Evil
THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGSfor Thursday of the First Week of Lent, February 26th, 2015 Liturgical texts here The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin, attributed to Lorenzo Monaco, (1370–1425)...
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