Jaw-dropping absurdity… and worse

Jaw-dropping absurdity… and worse

Fr. George Rutler November 11, 2019 0 Comments

Life in New York City can be hard for anyone who has difficulty accommodating paradoxes. For instance, the same City Council that has just banned the sale of foie gras on the grounds that it involves cruelty to force-fed geese, previously made New York the first city to pay mothers from other states to come…

Forget Not The Effect of the Blessed Sacrament in every Catholic parish tabernacle

Fr. George Rutler September 16, 2018 0 Comments

On the ninth of October in 1845, Blessed John Henry Newman was received into the Catholic Church by the Passionist priest Blessed Dominica Barberi. On the 150th Anniversary of that meeting of saints, to the very hour, I had the privilege of offering Mass in the little room where it took place.       Newman’s…