Tag: Pope Benedict XVI

Our Hunger for the Right Things

The historian Henry Adams once described politics as “the systematic organization of hatreds,” and that’s often where we seem to be in these last days before our nation’s 250th birthday.  As a Wall Street Journal column noted earlier this week,…

The World as the Womb of Divine Love

Some people wonder: Why stick around in this life if the next life is so great? In fact, why has God sent us into this world at all if His ultimate goal for us is union with Him? Why not just get us there? Why send us here, risking the…

If I Were Created a Cardinal

If I were created a Cardinal and dispensed from the canonical requirement to be ordained a deacon or priest – my vocation is as a layperson – this is how I would counsel the Holy Father on the first anniversary of his pontificate. “Holy Father,…