Fr. Eduardo Miguel Caballero Baza, EP

The prodigal son sinned gravely against God and against his father. Not even the sincere movement of his conversion is free from self-interest: “How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger” (Lk 15:17). Nevertheless, he accepts with simplicity the …

In a previous article, we saw how devotion to Dona Lucilia has spread with surprising speed in our days. This kind of phenomenon is not new, nor is it something unknown to the Church. The popular devotions that erupt because of the reputation of sanctity of men and women who …

Blessed John Dominici, by Fra Angelico, detail from the Crucifixion and the Saints - Convent of San Marco, Florence (Italy) The bitter cold that assailed Rome in November of 1406 was merely a reflection of the dreadful tempest that had been unleashed upon the Holy Church. The most painful schism …

“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Mt 16:18). In the last one hundred years, few passages of the Gospel have been the object of such vehement and passionate debate, for, …

The spiritual life is a process. No one becomes holy overnight, and no one falls from one day to the next; everything happens step by step, both ascending and descending, for this is the normal path in the state of trial in which we find ourselves on this earth. This …

From the earliest days of Christianity, martyrdom has been a cause of both fear and fascination for the faithful. The mere recollection of places like the Circus Maximus and the Roman Colosseum, or of names like Lawrence, Sebastian, and Ignatius of Antioch, for example, evokes feats of such grandeur and …