St. Catherine of Alexandria, Patroness of Modern Women

St. Catherine of Alexandria has a lot to say to such a world as ours.  She puts her trust completely in Jesus Christ, and so she trusts in the gifts he has given her, including her femininity. Therefore, she can be as strong as any man, without surrendering her womanhood.

Christ is King of the Universe . . . and of Our Hearts

The End of History?  Christ is King! How easily we forget . . . What a fool I was when the Berlin Wall fell forty years ago. I naively thought that the apotheosis of the state into totalitarian forms of government was fully and finally exposed. Everyone knew it was an inhuman, deadly fraud. In … Continue reading Christ is King of the Universe . . . and of Our Hearts

Christ is King of the Universe . . . and our hearts

     What a fool I was - when the Berlin Wall fell forty years ago, I naively thought that the apotheosis of the state into totalitarian forms of government was fully and finally exposed as an inhuman, deadly fraud. In my innocence, I was sure that all such attempts to put the minutiae of every individual's … Continue reading Christ is King of the Universe . . . and our hearts

Things Old and New: Berthier’s “Laudate Dominum”

Jacques Berthier      The Twentieth Century is known for many things, but beautiful art, whether in the visual arts or music, is not one of them.  There are nonetheless some lovely creations hidden among the experimental and the transgressive and the deconstructed offerings cluttering the past century.  You can hear one of those sparks of beauty in the … Continue reading Things Old and New: Berthier’s “Laudate Dominum”