Catholic News & Perspective

December 2023

Dec 4

Advent and the surprise answer to the mystery of consolation

by Father Patrick Briscoe “Human beings possess a great and readily observable weakness for which they need much support and comfort,” says the Italian priest philosopher Luigi Giussani. “They have an endemic fear engendered by a temptation to reduce the total image of their lives to what can be visibly and materially...
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Dec 1

Watching with spiritual eyes in Advent

by Father Joshua J. Whitfield “Anyone who lacks spiritual eyes, and whose soul has not become open and watchful, will not understand the reason we are so often festive.” These are the words of Jesuit Father Alfred Delp, which he preached in Munich just before Christmas 1942. I have always found them remarkable. He preached in...
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