An Irish Oasis of Adoration
Silverstream Priory, consisting of traditional Benedictines with a special charism of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, helps point us to the importance of a Eucharistic Revival.
Seeds of Adoration
In our culture nearly all vestiges of adoration of any kind have been removed. So do we even know what we are doing when we say we are adoring?
The Attack on Adoration
Leftist Catholics such as Cardinal Cupich have shown an increasing disdain for Eucharistic adoration. What is the origin of their contempt, and what is the proper Catholic understanding of adoration?
The Eucharist Is Not Just for Eating
Eucharistic adoration seems so passive, without purpose, functionless, and is written off as Catholic superstition. But it reflects the unitive love between Christ and the believer.
The Spiritual Answer to Corruption in High Places
In a recent essay in this magazine, I explored the parallels between the story about the children of Israel dancing around the Golden Calf (Ex. 32) and what’s happening among priests and prelates in the American Catholic Church. The article, with an assist from Aquinas, scrutinized their idolatry through the prisms of wealth, pleasure, power, … Read more
Defending the Real Presence
“This is the saddest story I have ever heard.” So begins one of the finest novels written in English in the last century, The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford. It is not, however, the saddest story ever told. That distinction belongs to a tale told in Aramaic back in the first century, which was … Read more