
The Glory of the Cross
The transformative and hope-filled message of Good Friday is that our hate can be “turned to pity, and our pity to love.”

The transformative and hope-filled message of Good Friday is that our hate can be “turned to pity, and our pity to love.”

The Spear serves as a lectio divina of sorts, that is, as an opportunity to imagine oneself in the action of the Holy Scriptures.

The prime minister’s long-overdue admission came on Thursday when she conceded that the unprecedented migration over the past two decades—paired with the state’s inability to integrate newcomers—had resulted in dangerous parallel societies and rising gang violence.

The bishop has again raised the alarm concerning ethno-religious division and the persecution of Christians in his country, reprimanding the Nigerian government for its complicity.

Righteous indignation has filled the hearts of Spanish Catholics after faithful parishioners taking part in two Holy Week processions—one held on Palm Sunday and the other on Maundy Thursday—were attacked by gangs of anti-Christian migrants last week.

The incident comes one month after an assailant hurled Molotov cocktail at the Russian House of Science and Culture, an important cultural institution in Paris that promotes Franco-Russian relations.

More than 500 years ago Antoine Brumel wrote a 12-part Mass that allows us to experience the uninhibited spirituality of the pre-Reformation world of the early 16th century. Its construction from a tiny motif of Gregorian chant from the Easter Lauds is nothing less than awe-inspiring.