Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. This Sunday is the First Sunday after Christmas, the last Sunday of the old civil year. Next Sunday will be the Second Sunday after Christmas. It will also be Twelfth Night and will bring the Christmas Season to a close. Monday, January 6, is
Crises of human dignity in our age tend to focus on those patent assaults against the human person, including abortion, the death penalty, war, and the abuse of the migrant and laborer alike—to name but a few. As St. John Paul II describes in Evangelium Vitae, each of these affronts against
A common question among Catholics is whether they are permitted to attend invalid marriages (that is, weddings which result in an invalid marriage). Despite the prevalence of the question, there has been little formal explanation by Church authority. The following then is merely one canonist’s view on the topic. The
To read more insights from Daniel C. Peterson, visit his blog: Sic Et Non. Cover image: An eleventh-century mosaic of the nativity of Jesus Christ in the monastery at Daphni, in Greece (Wikimedia Commons). Bill Hamblin and I published the following column in the Deseret News on 11 December 2015: When we think
Catalyst Question How do you define success? Witnessing a New Era This week, a new era in began in college sports: a twelve team playoff to name the national champion in collegiate football. For many years–in fact, for more than a century–champions were determined through voting of either coaches or
Today’s Reading: Read Revelation 7:1-17 Christmas is here! Were you successful? Did you find the perfect gift? Spend some time today celebrating the gift of salvation that is possible for us because of what we celebrate on Christmas morning! Christmas is absolutely about gifts but the thing to remember is
Revival in America There are spiritual tremors—is a full-scale quake on the horizon? Rediscovering the true reason for the season Just as regularly as the approach of Christmas means an increase in the number of advertisements for perfume on television, so also it means that anti-Christian sceptics will proclaim that
By now the Catholic Church’s support of a “living wage” (along with the related but differing “just wage”) is well known. Magisterial social teaching, along with the documents of synods and bishops’ conferences, since the promulgation of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum has consistently upheld his declaration that one “has a