Saint Augustine of Hippo in his excellent book, "City of God", quoting the Roman politician and lawyer, Cicero in his book "D...

As Archie Bunker might say, "Mister we could use a man like Saint Ambrose again!" In AD 380 the Roman Emperor Theodosius made be...

The Complaint of Peace (Querela Pacis) Desiderius Erasmus 1521 "We can be angry with the wicked but we can only pity the irrational....

My mother Armella was born in 1913 and when she was a little girl there were still more horses than motorcars. When she was about ten or ele...

The Tweet, the whole Tweet, and nothing but the Tweet! Which came first, the people or the money? Clowns to the left of me and jokers to t...

Charity of the Spirit - the solution to the RED / BLUE divide, especially for Christians. St. Paul to the Galatians 5:13-15 For you wer...

On life's journey from the womb to the tomb, A place of deep shadow without a glimmer Of the light of awareness and reason, A man...

In the Gospel of Mark (Mark 5:1-20), Jesus goes across the lake to the "country of the Gerasenes", that is to say, the territory o...

In the fuzzy orange glow of a new dawn fear strikes the land. The damp air is heavy and smells of fear and uncertainty. The sound of sh...

It is by patient endurance that you will gain possession of your souls. (Luke 21:19). The possession of a soul means the undisturbed maste...