The comforts of feasting—instant light, warmth, travel, food—have become so common that we talk about being “less materialistic” at Christmas. But God loves feasting
“I have wanted to create for myself a devotion to Mary that honors her as woman, as mother, that rejects the wickedness of sexual hatred and sexual fear.”
We live in a world and in a Church that are changing at a mad pace—indeed, in the next decade both the United States and American Catholicism may face the greatest challenges either has ever seen.
It is no exaggeration to say that our times are Apocalyptic, in the sense that we seem to have come to a point at which all the hidden, mysterious dynamism of the “history of salvation” revealed in the Bible has flowered into final and decisive crisis.
