Weekly Update

Today marks that great turning point in the drama of our salvation: when the Almighty One, the Sovereign, the Great and Glorious God makes his appearance among us as a small baby, in the quiet of a back stable, where no one would have ever thought to look.

As the weeks of Advent inch to their end, the weeks of many academic semesters near their end, too. There are great graces available in the nitty gritty of end of term assignments and exams and essays.

The everlasting truths the Church possesses may not always appear innovative or trendy, but they’re what a human heart is craving after.

As Catholics, let’s take Pope Leo’s encouragement and example to heart: Orthodox Christians are our brothers and sisters, and we ought to pray for a renewal of full communion.

Today’s one of those days in our common calendar that’s particularly unitive. Say thank you to someone this Thanksgiving.

Chinese Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo, who had been in and out of hiding for decades, recently died at the age of 90.

A somewhat surprising topic has made headlines lately: polygamy. Thank goodness for the Magisterium.

From the beginning the United States’s spiritual, moral, and imaginative backbone has been made up of a strange amalgam of seriously Christian ideas and a utopian vision of America's destiny.

Let’s pray for an increase in peace in our world – for less conflict and more goodwill, less violence and more understanding, less cruelty and more justice, both now and in whatever is to come.

For the Christian faith, the education of the poor is not a favor but a duty.