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by Brett Manero Spring is the best time of year – for me, anyway. Warm air is arriving, new life is budding, and signs of resurrection abound. What a perfect time of year to celebrate the most significant event to happen in human history: the Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. In our…

by Brett Manero There are many reasons for why Christianity is brilliant. There is the truth that in the Christian faith (built up on the Jewish faith), God comes to meet man, and not the other way around. In so many pagan religions, it is humanity that seeks to find the divine, but in the…

by Brett Manero It’s been a while since I wrote a new article: I was traveling in Europe, finishing the first class of my doctoral program, and generally just catching up on life. But here I am, and we are already something like halfway (or more than that) through the holy season of Lent. Lent…

by Brett Manero January 27, 2025 marks eighty years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.  Today, this date is known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. In January of 1945, Soviet forces, penetrating deeply into Nazi-occupied Poland, encountered the death camp and were astonished at the horrors which they found.  Auschwitz was of course the…

by Brett Manero The Los Angeles area is currently experiencing a shocking onslaught of as many as six active massive wildfires which began on Tuesday, January 7, due to an unusually high speed of the Santa Anna winds, possibly reaching as high as 100 MPH (source: The New York Post and CNN). A friend of…

by Brett Manero I intended to write this review some two weeks ago, but the busyness of the Christmas holiday got to me.  I watched the recent film, Mary, while en route from Denver to New York just before Christmas, and I’m finally getting around to a second viewing.  The following is, I hope, a…

by Kurt Hofer My home parish isn’t much to look at. It pales in comparison to the Cathedrals of Europe. That goes for both the interior and exterior. The only thing that distinguishes it from a Protestant church is that its otherwise barren altar bears a crucifix, not a cross.   I’m well aware I can…

by Brett Manero For Catholics, new years come in many ways. There is our birthdays, which can be looked at as an “individual new year” for each one of us. There is the beginning of the Church year with the start of Advent in late November or early December, which is technically the true start…

by Brett Manero President Jimmy Carter passed away on December 29, 2024, at the impressive age of 100 years old.  He served as the thirty-ninth President of the United States from 1977 until 1981, presiding over a nation that was recovering from the trauma of the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and the massive social…

by Brett Manero Many years ago, someone asked me: “Why doesn’t the Church have a Feast of the Incarnation, to truly honor the fact that God became man?” I thought about it and wondered the same thing: why doesn’t the Church have a specific feast celebrating the coming of the God-Man? It took the input…