From Michael Morgan’s review of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age: . . . If one form of Christianity sought to transcend the body, suffering, violence, and evil, another form, more humanistic, failed to appreciate the depth and seriousness of the latter....

The lovely Advent vespers hymn, Conditor Alme Siderum, is the topic of a wonderful article/podcast by Fr Zuhlsdorf. Here’s an English translation, Creator of the stars of night, by John M Neale: Creator of the stars of night, Thy people’s...

From Whispers in the Loggia, on a terrible topic that nevertheless can not be ignored: It might be Thanksgiving here in the States, but in Ireland, this Thursday’s mood is one of stunned, furious sadness. After a three-year state inquiry, today saw...

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The Summit Choirbook Edited and compiled by Sr. Maria of the Cross, O.P. and the Dominican Nuns of Summit, New Jersey First published in 1983, The Summit Choirbook was compiled and edited by our Sr. Maria of the Cross. Distinguished from other hymnals...