On Tax Collectors and Prostitutes
This last week in the Luxembourg Gardens, my favorite large park in town, I was sitting with a friend, “taking in the sun,” as they say here, and was accusing myself of being a...
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Magnum Opus: A Lenten Observation
“Mommy,” my six-year-old daughter asks me, her face shining with enthusiasm. “Can I clean up my room so I can offer up a sacrifice with Jesus?” She hangs on my answer as if she’s...
The Case for Relocation
This season on Restoration Radio we had an episode on relocation. I think the episode did a good job of offering different perspectives, and featured guests who had all relocated for the Mass and...
Sunday Edition *Updated*
A previous edition of this post stated that the fast and abstinence rules do not apply on the Feast of the Incarnation and on Maundy Thursday. After a question from a reader and further...
My first Mardi Gras in Paris and Free Museum Day
No matter how long we spend prepping for it or how the Church prepares us through Septuagesima, I always feel Lent is upon me faster than I expect. I particularly enjoyed a friend’s piece...
Lent and the Spirit of Sacrifice
Ed: As it is normative to have priests, not laypeople, discussing the importance of Lent, I commissioned Fr. McKenna to do an article for TR. I present this to you at the beginning of...
Mass in Madrid *Updated*
I offer corrections to the original text that Father asked me to add today. On April 27th, Fr. Ricardo Isaguirre, who is a priest-friend of the IMBC, will say a non-una-cum Mass in Madrid,...
The sadness of the European church
It was January 2000. My fellow sophomore classmates had just arrived at the lovely 15th century convent that would be our home for the semester. The nuns had happily ushered us in and were...
Bits and Bobs
Hopefully the weather is finally nice for those of you in the United States who have had some massive snowfall lately. We’ve got a few bits of news for you. There is a new...
A new priest of Jesus Christ
I encourage anyone trying to move to a high level of fluency to listen to sermons in the language you are focusing on. It sharpens the mind and gives you an opportunity to double-check...
