The toasted sand between my toes
the tepid tide that ebbs and flows
and lukewarm wind that gently blows
induce a peaceful slumber…
My August flies by down the street of summer, like an anxious maple leaf
brightened too soon
headed for the pond
where it will soon lie at the bottom
with a hundred other memories.
It has been thirty-two years since Pope Saint John Paul II released the encyclical letter Veritatis Splendor (“The Splendor of Truth”).
Thirty-three years after Pope Saint John Paul II released the encyclical letter Veritatis Splendor (“The Splendor of Truth”), I’m starting a new Substack dedicated to a paragraph-by-paragraph gloss of the letter and an exploration of its themes.
On the memorial of St. John Mary Vianney, patron saint of priests, here are a few passages from a letter to priests that was published by Pope Saint John Paul II on Holy Thursday of 1986.
On July 26, 1970, at the church of Saint John the Baptist in Excelsior, Minnesota, the Rev. Vincent O’Connor poured water over my forehead and baptized me in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
I’ve just updated this article which I originally wrote for The Catholic Servant in 1997.
I’ve written a Substack post about Steven Spielberg’s new movie Disclosure Day.
In 2026, the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (and the World Day of Prayer for Priests) falls on Friday, June 12th.
Pope Leo XIV’s letter on safeguarding the human person in the time of AI
