What can we perceive in the face of Jesus?

If the face is the most expressive manifestation of the person, and Christians are supposed "to become one with Christ", alter Chr...

The face of God

Christians would want to become friends with Jesus, to be acquainted with him, to get to know him as a person. How do we best get to know a ...

Benedict XVI is a prophet for our times

In Jesus of Nazareth, Benedict XVI describes a prophet in this way: His task is not to report the events of tomorrow or the next day in orde...

Spirituality of sanctity vs other-centered spirituality?

There seems to be a current of thinking which considers the search for sanctity as something selfish, something centered on self rather than...

What is God about?

If God is what Jesus brought to this world, if God is the axis on which everything depends, then the common question of the common man livi...

Everything depends on this - Benedict XVI

"Everything depends on this". With these words Benedict XVI described the absolute importance of the central reason he wrote Jesus...

Message of Fatima: faith, hope and love

Remember what I posted earlier, Benedict's main point in his book, Jesus of Nazareth ? What did Jesus actually bring, if not world peace...

The Economist praised Benedict XVI

The Economist praised Benedict XVI in its review of the Pope's book: "the pope's elegantly, almost tenderly written essay on th...

St. Josemaria, the Tridentine Mass and the Mass of Paul VI

See my post at Wikipedia: Monsignor Escrivá saying Mass Escriva considered the Mass as the "center and root of the Christian...

Tridentine Rite as extraordinary form: was never juridically abrogated

I posted this at Wikipedia: Through his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of 7 July 2007, Benedict XVI has enabled the use of the Tridentin...

Relativism will end up collapsing like a house of cards

The letter of Fr. Javier Echevarria, the Prelate of Opus Dei is posted in the web. And he does a marvelous job of using texts taken from the...