What We Can Learn From The Divine Office, or, Why Culture Matters
I was recently asked to answer a question about the structure of the rosary, which got me to speaking about …
Author Archives: Omar F. A. Gutierrez
Solidarity
Pray for the people of Japan. There will be plenty of opportunities for giving money and sending supplies. We must …
Lessons on Lying, or, How I Could Be Wrong Too.
Wherein I share my thoughts on this whole question of lying and Live Action.
Christ is Still the Answer
The Enlightenment and its ideas of near-total moral relativism created the stuff of Hitler and Stalin. “Without God,” as Dostoevsky wrote, “all things are permitted.”
Giovanni and His Rome Beneath the Surface
Young Giovanni had a talent for letters. A piece marble with ancient writing on it would propel him through a series of events that would change his life and ours. Read about it
here.
The Good News for The Poor
Hope for the poor is in Christ Jesus, in their and our encounter with Him, and not in the promises of political parties or community organizations that pledge caring attention to the needs of the poor. Christ, the Good News, reveals to us ourselves and thus our real needs…needs detached from news cycles and election years. This is why Popes Paul VI, John Paul the Great, and Benedict XVI all say that the social doctrine is evangelizaton and evangelization fulfills the social doctrine.
St. Ambrose, Model Bishop
Some years ago, as I was fishing about trying to find a suitable topic for my master’s thesis, I …
For the Love of Neighbor…
The forearm is on display not in mere virtue of its owner’s friendship with Ignatius. It is on display because its owner, St. Francis Xavier, was one of the most successful missionaries in the history of Christianity.
Feast of St. Edmund Campion
The puny sacrifices of our day, in the plush luxury of American modern life, are obscenely indicative of just how far we have gotten away from the visceral faith of our fathers.
On the Feast of St. Andrew
I think for this, St. Andrew ought to be some patron of writers. Those with writer’s block or struggling with the prospect of starting a book ought to pray to St. Andrew.
What Lazarus Has to Teach Us, and Caryll Houselander As Well
Caryll is the spiritual writer for the woman at the sink, washing the dishes. She is the writer for the fellow in the car, once again off to work in the dark hours of the morning only to return home in darkness again.
The Vietnamese Martyrs
Today marks the Memorial of the Martyrs of Vietnam often referred to as the Memorial of Andrew Dung Lac and …
My Dorothy Day Favorites Part IV
The care of the littlest one is our responsibility, at the local level. It is not for the State to come in and usurp our authority by usurping our responsibility.
My Dorothy Day Favorites Part III
Every little act of kind attention to God’s creation can be a salvific and sanctifying act of grace…if only we could turn our hearts over to Him.
My Dorothy Day Favorites Part II
Beware those who wish to make the State the mother of all invention.