Almost all of my favorite religious music is either music for Passiontide or for Christmas. As I thought about this fact (I do sometimes think about myself) I realized that each season reveals a different face of the one love that God has for us; his love of the innocent in Passiontide and his love of the powerless at Christmas.

Dear All, The moral teaching of the Catholic Church in the realm of societal affairs is of one piece with the Church’s teaching in the realm of personal morality.

Dear All, Our present Pope is a bright and shining example of just how foreign to Catholicism a ’trickle down theory of anything is.