There is one thing that stands out on this birthday of the Light, on this entrance procession of goodness into the world, and it fills us again and again with the nagging doubt whether those great things we talk about have really happened there in the stable of Bethlehem. Look at the sun, it...
By Deacon Keith Fournier | Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) 12/16/2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Online) – All US News reports are fixated on efforts to push a “Heath Care Reform” package through the Senate before Christmas. The threat by Senator Joe Lieberman to hold the legislation hostage unless the so called ‘public option” is removed has...
Surely all of us who are aquainted with the tradition of Western art are familiar with those delightfully naive pictures in which, above the heads of the apostles, only the feet of Jesus are still visible beneath the cloud that envelops him. The outer rim of the cloud itself is a dark circle; inside there...
