The Girl Who Was Saturday

“Because there was no room for them at the inn.” Those words, some of the most poignant in all of Western literature, words which have ...

Not the Perfect Family At Mass Saturday night Father chanced to remark that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are referred to as “the Holy Fami...

At Mass yesterday Monsignor made the observation (based on his welcome upon his first visit to Italy) that home is not so much where one i...

It is a drunk undergraduate who spouts the maxim “To understand all is to forgive all” in Evelyn Waugh’s masterful Brideshead Revisited .   ...

As the   Register   has reported , Pope Francis’s recent request for a reformulation of the catechism’s language on the death penalty (as r...

At the end of June and beginning of July the calendar of the universal Church is marked by the feasts of a number of well-known martyr-sain...

My long-running obsession with justice and judgment (fed by the current dissertation chapter) has made the words pop out everywhere; Scr...

The Tuesday, July 3 edition of NPR’s “All Things Considered” celebrated the anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae with the headline “...

At Mass recently we heard a famous passage, recognizable even to many a non-Christian.  Pope Francis has riffed on it, and it is a familiar...

Every now and then in signing off on an email, one Catholic to another, I have to restrain myself from employing the phrase “Happy Lent!” a...

A recent foray into the world of parenting books led me to the painfully familiar concept of being “fair.”   While this is not (yet) a per...

John 1:4: “What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race.” —from the USCCB readings for the...

As the Harvey Weinstein story continues to ripple outwards, the articles about the souring of our culture, particularly the souring of male...

Well.  That escalated … if not quickly, at any rate to a higher altitude than expected.  Apparently, at least over here at the Register, th...

Today we got some fresh farmer’s market fruits and vegetables from a neighbor.   And today, researching how to use three enormous and ve...