A Northern Nativity
By Cole Hartin
William Kurelek (1927-77) was a Canadian artist and author who spent much of the second half of his anguished life grappling with Catholicism. His is not likely a name that would be familiar t... Read More...
What Child (Youth) Is This, Indeed?
Jesus’s first sermon in the Temple (Luke 2:41-52)
By Jean McCurdy Meade
The shepherds have returned to the fields and their flocks. When the child is eight days old, his parents bring him to be circumcised,... Read More...
Inns and Stables
By Zachary Guiliano
I wrote an article recently about the “Poverty of Jesus,” responding to a few blog posts written by Ian Paul, which have come out regularly around Christmas on his blog Psephizo. Because of the direction these posts took last year, and s... Read More...
My Marian Testimony
By Leander Harding
I grew up in the pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic Church. I served as an altar boy at the early morning weekday Masses which were still in Latin. When I was a 12-year-old Boy Scout I made a f... Read More...
Joseph and the Politics of Uncertainty
In a safe country, with the rule of law, a citizen can ignore politics. In a country without predictability, a citizen has to watch and worry.
An Unsentimental Family
The Holy Family's faith is neither sentimental nor easy nor even stable.
The home life of our own dear queen
If there is any truth to modern theories on the origins of empathy, then we cannot forget them when we think of how Christ comes into the world.
The marriage of Mary and Joseph
On the importance of remembering Joseph’s obedience