Praying for salvific ignorance for the clever Hans KüngFather Roger J. Landry
When I first heard the news on April 6 that the 93-year-old Swiss theologian and author Father Hans Küng had died, I had just finished the prayers for the fifth day of the Novena of Divine Mercy. His ...
The choice we face Father Roger J. Landry
From the time I was a child, participating in the reading of the Passion account on Palm Sunday and Good Friday has always been jarring. The most discomfiting, even interiorly violent, part is the dialogue ...
Living and speaking by Christ's higher standardFather Roger J. Landry
At the beginning of the Lenten season, at daily Mass, the Church has a heavy focus on Jesus' words from the Sermon on the Mount. That's not particularly surprising, insofar as Lent is intended to foster ...
Paying attention to every word Father Roger J. Landry
On Ash Wednesday, priests in the United States will be changing the way we finish the Collect or Opening Prayer at Mass. For nearly 50 years, we have prayed, "Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, ...
How to respond to prodigal Catholic public figures?Father Roger J. Landry
How do we respond effectively as Catholics to the tragically too common circumstance of Catholics in prominent positions blatantly betraying the Catholic faith? On the intentional killing of fellow human ...
Repairers of a house divided Father Roger J. Landry
It is a providential occurrence that the inauguration of Joseph Biden as the 46th President of the United States is taking place during the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity. Jesus was clear in the ...
Remembering Reginaldus MagnusFather Roger J. Landry
Shortly after midnight on Christmas, Father Reginald Foster, papal Latinist for 40 years and the world's foremost Latin teacher, died at the age of 81 at St. Anne's Home in Milwaukee. I had the privilege ...
Christmas lessons in the school of St. Joseph Father Roger J. Landry
On December 8, to mark the 150th anniversary of St. Joseph being declared the patron of the universal church, Pope Francis decreed a Year of St. Joseph and published a beautiful apostolic letter entitled, ...
