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I still remember the first time I heard the music of composer Arvo Pärt. I was in the library at a retreat center in Missouri perched on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River. I was due to be ordained to the priesthood and was taking a week of solitary silence to prepare. I’d had the run Read More…

Music for and from silence: Arvo Pärt’s Magnificat

CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2025 / 06:00 am A little over a year ago, Father Matthew Gonzalez, a priest in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, had the idea to create a group for boys [...]

Are you familiar with the Divine Office, also called the Liturgy of the Hours?  This prayer is rooted in the Church’s history, and is beautiful and powerful.  The Divine Office is a participation in the unceasing praises of God in heaven. It is an act of earthly union with the saints in heaven.  Drawn from Read More…

Pray the Divine Office: 3 great resources

In the last few years, just off the shore of Lake İznik in northwestern Turkey, the remains of a 4th-century basilica dedicated to St. Neophytos have emerged after more than seven centuries beneath the water. The basilica obviously wasn’t built underwater, but archaeologists believe that it was destroyed by an earthquake in 1065, and the Read More…

Destroyed by earthquakes, now uncovered by drought: Nicaea

In recent years many around the world have become acquainted with Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek. His book, He Leadeth Me, was featured on the prayer and meditation app Hallow and soon after became a bestseller on Amazon. He’s also well known for his book With God in Russia. The cause for his canonization was officially Read More…

Walter Ciszek died on the feast of the Immaculate Conception

Modern politics began in the seventeenth century with a technological ambition: to build an “artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural,” an “automaton that moves by springs and wheeles as doth [...]

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