Fr. Rutler’s homily podcast. In 1912 the father of an old friend contemplated a political career. In his idealism he traveled to Chicago for the Bull Moose Convention of the National Progressive Party. Its delegates announced that they were “battling for the Lord” and that the campaign would be a new Battle of Armageddon. The … Continue reading 2017-09-17 – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Matthew 18:21-35

Fr. Rutler’s homily. In the tumultuous eleventh century, seven monks including Saint Bruno formed the Carthusian order, dedicated to prayer for the serenity of souls, taking as their motto: “Stat crux dum volvitur orbis” — the Cross stands as the world spins. September’s Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross would seem a curiosity, were it not … Continue reading 2017-09-10 – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Matthew 18:15-20

Fr. George Rutler’s homily podcast. Column to come.

Fr. George Rutler’s homily podcast. Column to come.

Fr. George Rutler’s homily podcast. Column to come.

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This is the excerpt for your very first post.

Fr. George William Rutler’s homily podcast. Jan Struther (1901-1953) wrote popular hymns but is best known for the book that became the 1942 film Mrs. Miniver, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. The Dunkirk evacuation figures in it and was emotive propaganda as the United States was just getting involved in the war. A new film … Continue reading 2017-07-30 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Matthew 13:44-52

Fr. George William Rutler’s homily podcast. There are saints whose lives were inconspicuous and whose canonizations surprised some who thought they were unexceptional. There are others whose mystical gifts were so prodigious that they made every effort, sometimes amusingly as in the instance of Philip Neri, to distract attention from themselves. In recent centuries these would … Continue reading 2017-07-23 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Matthew 13:24-43

Fr. George William Rutler’s homily podcast. For Albert Einstein, “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.” The day before he died in Princeton Hospital in 1955, he spent hours speculating about a “unified field theory,” a project he had begun in the 1920s. Roughly put, it is a “theory … Continue reading 2017-07-09 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Matthew 11:25-30