The priest as evangelical witness

The priest as evangelical witness

Living the mystery I have titled today’s talk, “The Priest as Evangelical Witness,” and in doing so am picking up on a point made the last time I addressed the ACCC (see, “Practice what you teach,” The Priest, November 2002 and “Believe what you read”, The Priest, May...

St Maria Goretti

St Maria Goretti

Such is the embrace of the communion of Saints that today’s commemoration of St Maria Goretti, whom the Church reveres for her witness to virginal chastity one century ago, easily takes the Christian mind back to the memory of the martyrs of her early centuries —...

Where are we now?

Where are we now?

As an avid map-reader and navigator, I like to know where I am, so I can work out where to go next. This practical habit developed at the age of eleven, while steering dazed parents and a grizzling younger brother around post-War London, where we spent six months....

Lord, accept this sacrifice

Lord, accept this sacrifice

Through catechisms, we are all familiar with the ends for which the Eucharistic Sacrifice is offered: in praise and adoration, for intercession and atonement. But in recent decades much less emphasis has been placed on the fourth end – that the Sacrifice of the Mass...

“And the Church will give thanks for Benedict XVI”

“And the Church will give thanks for Benedict XVI”

Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter, Summorum Pontificum, promulgated Motu Proprio, is an event equal in significance to Pope St Pius V’s Bull, Quo primum, of 1570, and the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium (1963)....