What Is Culture? All That Enhances the Human Mind

What Is Culture? All That Enhances the Human Mind

What Is Culture? People answer this question in many different ways. Some are inspired by philology, others by all kinds of philosophical and social systems. So many contradictions have arisen around defining culture, and the related word “civilization” gives rise to so many contradictions that international congresses of scholars and professors have … Read more

Lenten Reflections on the Passion of Christ

Lenten Reflections on the Passion of Christ 4

The following Lenten reflections deal with suffering, in the truly Catholic sense of the word. It was by the Cross that our good Lord opened the gates of Heaven for us and it will be through suffering well accepted, that we will someday be able to enter those Heavenly gates. The Church … Read more

Five Ways Technology Is Taking Over Your Life

Five Ways Technology Is Taking Over Your Life 1

The proper use of technology is that it should be a means to serve us and make our lives easier. A key requirement is that we should be in control. We should not serve technology and allow our gadgets to control our lives, social skills or decisions. When this happens, it can … Read more

A Great Little Book: Francisco of Fatima

A Great Little Book: Francisco of Fatima 2

When America Needs Fatima first published its children’s biography of the youngest of the three little Fatima seers, Jacinta Marto, it was well received by young and old alike. Jacinta’s Story by Andrea F. Phillips continues to be in popular demand and has gone through several printings. One question, however, has persistently … Read more

Reflections on the Stations of the Cross

Reflections on the Stations of the Cross 2

""""[vc_column_text]   The text used in these insightful meditations on the fourteen Stations of the Cross, is taken from the book The Way of the Cross written by Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. O Sorrowful Mother, in these times wherein the immense majority of men flee from the sacrifice inherent to the … Read more

They Tied His Hands Because He Did Good

They Tied His Hands Because He Did Good

Why didst Thy executioners bind Thee, O Lord? What had Thy hands done, that they should be tied? Who can say, Lord, what glory these hands gave to God when they first received the kisses of Our Lady and Saint Joseph? Who can tell the tenderness with which Mary Most Holy first … Read more

Reflections on a Café

Reflections on a Café

For a long time, a very long time, I have wanted to convey an impression about the development of Brazil. “Development” is a term I use here in a sense only remotely related to what is usually understood by that word. I am not referring to economic-financial development. This is the supreme … Read more