Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep May 17, 2013 The Church is now in the midst of the great annual novena praying for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit this Sunday on Pentecost. It’s become my favorite time of the Liturgical...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep May 10, 2013 During my years at the helm of The Anchor, I always had the half-mischievous, half-evangelical desire to put on the front page above the fold a headline with the biggest font in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep May 03, 2013 Wednesday was the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, instituted by Pope Pius XII to give a Christian response to the communist May Day celebrations. Every year it focuses the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep April 26, 2013 In the 11 days since the Patriots’ Day marathon bombings, the motto “Boston Strong” has become more than words put on professional sports jerseys and blue and yellow ribbons but...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep April 19, 2013 Every Easter Week since 2005 I’ve been organizing a Seminar for Priests at the beautiful Arnold Hall Conference and Retreat Center in Pembroke. It’s a great opportunity for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep April 12, 2013 2013, Column, Putting into the Deep, The Anchor Both before and after the election of Pope Francis, there has been much talk about the reform of the Vatican. Francis gave some...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep April 05, 2013 On Sunday, Pope Francis in his Easter greeting before his solemn blessing for the city and the world (Urbi et Orbi), said that greatest Easter wish would be for “every heart” to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep March 29, 2013 One of the most fascinating aspects of the biography of our Pope Francis is when and how he discovered his priestly vocation. It’s a mystery worth pondering deeply on this Good...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep March 22, 2013 Most of us in Rome to cover the papal conclave and inauguration are still getting over the shock at Pope Francis’ election. We thought that it was certainly possible, if the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep March 15, 2013 I was really honored when Raymond Arroyo of EWTN asked me to come to Rome to do television commentary for the papal conclave. The week since I’ve arrived has been one of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep March 08, 2013 Just before the Year of Faith began, Benedict XVI, through his Apostolic Penitentiary in the Vatican, published a list of plenary indulgences that Catholics could receive...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep March 01, 2013 In his letter announcing the Year of Faith, Benedict XVI stressed that Catholics need to recover the sense that faith is a pilgrimage. To enter into the life of faith “is to set...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep February 22, 2013 Back in 2008, Pope Benedict said that Lent is “like a great spiritual retreat lasting 40 days.” That’s why last Sunday we heard of the principal inspiration for this holy...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep February 15, 2013 In 2010, in the book-length interview “Light of the World,” Pope Benedict told Peter Seewald, “If a pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep February 08, 2013 It’s five days from the beginning of the holy season of Lent and time for us to be formulating our Lenten resolutions in conversation with God in prayer. During this Year of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep February 01, 2013 Back in December, I had dinner with a great Catholic couple who took me and four priest friends to Fernando’s in New Bedford in anticipation of Christmas. During the course...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep January 25, 2013 Other than those of Czech origin, few Catholics know the moving story of St. John Nepomuc. He was a virtuous and brilliant young priest who, in addition to serving as vicar...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep January 18, 2013 Every year is meant to be a “year of the Lord” (anno Domini). Since 2013 takes place during the Year of Faith, however, all of us are called to make a special effort to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep January 11, 2013 Right after Thanksgiving, the Diocese of Fall River hosted Carolyn Woo, the director of Catholic Relief Services, for a powerful talk at St. Julie Billiart Parish in North...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep December 21, 2012 On Tuesday we will mark one of the greatest scandals in history: there was no room in the inn. Not only did people turn their back on a woman about to give birth, but...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep December 14, 2012 During the Advent season we’ve become somewhat accustomed to hearing jeremiads against the commercialization of the season, from clergy, faithful and even those who long ago...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep December 07, 2012 The day before Thanksgiving was a rare treat when I had no afternoon or evening appointments. I decided to download to my iPad Pope Benedict’s third and final volume of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep November 30, 2012 Today we finish November, the month in which the Church annually reflects on the last things of death, judgment, Heaven and hell. Last week I mentioned that this meditation...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep November 23, 2012 During the month of November, which begins with All Saints’ Day and the Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed, Catholics are called to meditate on the last things...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep November 16, 2012 I’ve been a sports fan all my life and have witnessed some amazing comebacks, but few compare to the incredible recovery that was made with regard to Ballot Item 2...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep November 09, 2012 It’s not often, especially for us in the United States with our relatively brief history, that we have a chance to celebrate a 1,700th anniversary. When we look back...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep November 02, 2012 A month ago I received an email from a young woman from our diocese who is studying in Ohio. She was asking advice about whether she should register to vote in Ohio or get an...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep October 26, 2012 St. Gregory of Nyssa, one of the great early Fathers of the Church, said that, morally, we are our own parents. By our actions, by the choices we make in response to the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep October 19, 2012 Once a lawyer, to test Jesus, asked Him what he had to do to inherit eternal life. Jesus responded by asking the man first to give his own opinion of what was written in God’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep October 12, 2012 Yesterday, the Church began the Year of Faith. The context of this holy year is rather clear: It began four days into the Synod on the New Evangelization and the Transmission...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep October 05, 2012 The Year of Faith announced begins next Thursday. It has no official theme, but I think the best one would be, “Lord, increase our faith” (Lk 17:5), the plea the Apostles made...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep September 28, 2012 Two weeks ago, Fordham University brought together three very funny Catholics for a conversation on humor and joy in the spiritual life: Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep September 21, 2012 When I was in Lourdes earlier this month, I went early in the morning to pray at the Grotto where Mary appeared to St. Bernadette in 1858. I had with me a biography of St...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep September 14, 2012 At the beginning of September I went to Spain to do a retreat and a continuing formation course for priests in the Pyrenees. In addition to a lot of time for prayer...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep September 7, 2012 In the days leading up to Republican Convention, there were various television specials and articles about Mormonism, since Mitt Romney is the first Mormon ever to be...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep August 31, 2012 Last week, we considered Buffalo Bishop Richard Malone’s thoughts on martyrdom in the New Evangelization and we distinguished between what Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen used to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep August 24, 2012 On August 10, Bishop Richard Malone was installed as the new shepherd of the Diocese of Buffalo. I’ve known Bishop Malone for more than 20 years, from the time he was chaplain...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep August 17, 2012 Last week I relaunched this column by focusing on the future Pope Benedict’s comment, “The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep August 8, 2012 In his pastoral plan for the Third Christian Millennium, Blessed John Paul II denominated “Put into the Deep” as the motto for the Church for the next thousand years. Like St...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 6, 2010 In this mini-series on the truly Catholic response to the scandals, we have looked at the example of saints, for every crisis in the Church is a crisis of saints and the holy ones...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial July 16, 2010 On June 28, at the Roman basilica built over the human remains of the great apostle St. Paul, Pope Benedict announced that he was founding a new Vatican dicastery, which will be called the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 16, 2010 Ten days ago the Church celebrated the feast of St. Maria Goretti, whose Christian response to suffering sexual abuse as a minor is a light not only for those who have endured the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 9, 2010 One of the least covered aspects of the clergy sex abuse crisis concerns priests falsely accused. It is hard to put into words what it is like for a man who has dedicated himself to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep July 2, 2010 As the whole Church has been confronted with the evil of the sexual abuse of young people in her midst during the past several decades, one of the most frustrating explanations...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep June 25, 2010 The crises that the Church and the world face are “crises of saints.” This insight of St. Josemaria Escriva, the 35th anniversary of whose birth into eternal life the Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep June 18, 2010 Since last June, to mark the Year for Priests, which took place on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth into eternal life of St. John Vianney, the patron saint of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 11, 2010 Approaching his death, St. Paul wrote to his spiritual son, St. Timothy,” I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.” Those words could easily sum...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 4, 2010 “God is always almighty,” the Curé of Ars once told his sister. “He can at all times work miracles and he would work them now as in the days of old were it not that faith is wanting.”...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into the Deep May 28, 2010 In Catholic piety, May is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It’s a fitting time, therefore, to see what we can learn from St. John Vianney’s ardent devotion to the Mother of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 21, 2010 St. John Vianney’s mission as pastor, as he mentioned the day of his arrival to eight year-old Antoine Givre, was to show the people of Ars the way to heaven. The beginning that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 14, 2010 One of the most memorable events in St. John Vianney’s life occurred the first day he was on the job as pastor. He was near the completion of the 20 mile journey from Écully to Ars...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 7, 2010 One of the most humbling events in the life of St. John Vianney occurred in May 1845 when Fr. Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, the famous Dominican whose homilies at Paris’ Notre Dame...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 30, 2010 One of St. John Vianney’s greatest priestly challenges came in the pulpit. He was not naturally eloquent or comfortable in front of crowds. He had not received much of a theological...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 23, 2010 Last week we focused on the importance of St. John Vianney’s longevity as pastor in Ars. Even though he was a holy, hardworking, amiable, and supremely self-sacrificing pastor, and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 16, 2010 Toward the end of St. John Vianney’s life, as pilgrims flocked to Ars from all over France, they would leave marveling not only about having witnessed “God in a man,” as one...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 9, 2010 On Monday of Holy Week, the Gospel at daily Mass focused of Mary of Bethany’s anointing Jesus’ feet with oil made from genuine aromatic nard. Judas Iscariot immediately objected to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 2, 2010 The saints are always given to us as models of the Christian life. St. John Vianney is given not merely to priests as a patron and exemplar but to all the faithful as an icon of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 26, 2010 On Palm Sunday and Good Friday, the whole Church will contemplate in unison the Passion of the Lord Jesus. It is a day on which we seek to grasp the greatest of all paradoxes: how a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 19, 2010 Last week we saw the heroic charity of St. John Vianney, who sought to treat others with the same limitless love with which Christ loves. He was never content to give merely...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 12, 2010 Because love is the point of human life and the means of holiness, it’s not at all surprising that St. John Vianney excelled in Christ-like charity. The Curé of Ars’ example is a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 5, 2010 “I’m a liar. Do you believe me?” That mind-twisting statement, said to me humorously by a high school teacher, is germane to whether we can consider credible anything the devil says...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 26, 2010 Last we described the various vexations by which the devil for over 35 years harassed the patron saint of priests at night as he was trying to get a couple of hours of rest...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 19, 2010 “The first time the devil came to torment me,” St. John Vianney recounted to catechism students many years later, “was one night at 9 pm, just as I was about to go to bed. Three...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 12, 2010 Among those who, prior to this Year for Priests, had heard about the Curé of Ars but did not know much about him, most likely they had heard of two facts: that he was an heroic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 5, 2010 Last week, as the Church in the United States was preparing for Catholic Schools Week, we focused on all the sacrifices St. John Vianney made and work he did in Ars to found a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 29, 2010 Perhaps as a result of his many hardships due to the inadequate education he received as a young boy, St. John Vianney was always a great apostle of the importance of Catholic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 22, 2010 In the past two weeks, we’ve focused on two of the great challenges St. John Vianney faced in his priestly life. The first came from various lay people in Ars who disparaged...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 15, 2010 When I was a seminarian, a priest I knew was taking me out to dinner. On the way to the restaurant, we passed a church whose territory bordered the parish where he was pastor...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 8, 2010 One of the most difficult things for any of us to deal with is criticism. It’s hard enough when we’re criticized justly and constructively. When the criticism is unmerited, off...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 24, 2009 St. John Vianney always loved the major feasts of our faith, but Christmas in particular filled him with extraordinary joy. In the tiny baby Jesus lying in the manger, the Curé...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 18, 2009 Because of his work in the confessional, preaching on conversion, heroic life of fasting and little sleep, battles against the devil, and crusades against indecent dancing and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 11, 2009 Within this year-long series of articles on St. John Vianney, the 150th of whose birth into eternal life provided the occasion for Pope Benedict to declare the Year for Priests...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 4, 2009 Last week we discussed how demanding St. John Vianney was in requiring a firm purpose of amendment from those who came to him to receive the Sacrament of Penance. For a confession...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 27, 2009 In the last two weeks, we’ve discussed how St. John Vianney would try to help people to make better confessions. He began by teaching them how to examine their consciences more...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 20, 2009 Last week, we began to look at how St. John Vianney, once he got his parishioners to return to the Sacrament of Penance, sought to help them get more out of it. His strategy was...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 13, 2009 During his fruitful decades as the Curé of Ars, St. John Vianney not only labored to get his people to come to confession but to help them become good and better penitents. In...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 6, 2009 Last week we examined how St. John Vianney used his pulpit to draw people to God in the confessional. Through his homilies at Mass and his catechetical lessons for kids and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 30, 2009 Last week, we examined one of the reasons why St. John Vianney’s confessional became the most besieged one in the history of the Church: he prayed and sacrificed so much for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 23, 2009 A few weeks ago, when I began this miniseries on St. John Vianney as a confessor, I asked why so many men and women from throughout France made enormous sacrifices to get to the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 16, 2009 A priest classmate recently told me that whenever he preaches about confession, he now talks primarily about how much he personally needs confession. He said that this one of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 9, 2009 Last week, we focused on the “great miracle” of St. John Vianney’s confessional, to which prodigal sons and daughters from all over France flocked to be embraced by the merciful...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 2, 2009 “The great miracle of the Curé of Ars,” one of his contemporaries said during the process for beatification “was his confessional, besieged day and night.” The fundamental reason...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 25, 2009 Two weeks ago, we looked at how St. John Vianney’s whole life was transformed into a prayer. Last Friday, we examined what he taught his parishioners about prayer in general...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 18, 2009 Last week we looked at how St. John Vianney, the patron saint of priests, was an example of “an existence made prayer.” The focus of all his pastoral work in Ars was to help his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 11, 2009 In a catechesis on July 1, Pope Benedict declared what is the “first task” and “the true path of sanctification” for a Christian — prayer — and why St. John Vianney is so...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 4, 2009 The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council taught that Jesus in the Eucharist is meant to be the “source and the summit of the Christian life.” In other words, for a life to be...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 28, 2009 The most important part of St. John Vianney’s efforts to convert his parish in Ars was to help his people to recover a sense of the sacred importance of the Lord’s Day. The fathers...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 21, 2009 Last week we focused in general on the heroic prayer, penance and preaching St. John Vianney engaged in to bring about the total conversion of his parish. Like any good shepherd...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 14, 2009 When Fr. John Vianney was notified that he was being sent to Ars, three years after his priestly ordination, his vicar general told him, “There is not much love for God in that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 7, 2009 Sacred Scripture abounds in examples of how God has repeatedly taken the least and made them great in salvation history. Abraham was a childless octogenarian who became the father...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 17, 2009 The future patron saint of priests, John Vianney, never desired merely to be a priest. He hungered to be a truly holy priest. One of the greatest means God used to help him learn the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 10, 2009 A few years ago, as I was preaching at the first Mass of Thanksgiving of a newly ordained priest, I made reference to a quotation of the Curé of Ars that, prior to my ordination...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 3, 2009 I begin today a series of articles on St. John Vianney, the Curé or pastor of Ars, who was declared by Pope Pius XI in 1929 the patron saint of parish priests and who, during this...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 26, 2009 When Pope Benedict announced on March 16 that he was declaring a Year of the Priesthood, my first reaction was total joy. I love these ecclesiastical years which do for the Mystical...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 19, 2009 A few weeks ago, I was interviewed for a story on fatherhood by the National Catholic Register. The reporter noted that Father’s Day this year occurs the day before the Church...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 12, 2009 Throughout this year of St. Paul, as I’ve had the chance to go through the details and the writings of the great apostle anew in greater depth, I have often returned to one figure...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 5, 2009 I have always had a great devotion to the martyrs and for this reason, June has always been a special month. We begin the month with the memorials of Saints Justin, Marcellinus and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 29, 2009 For the past few decades, the popes have been trying to inspire Catholics to take up their role in the re-evangelization of areas where the Church was once strong but where now the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 22, 2009 When I was in Louisiana in March, I made my second pilgrimage to the parish church dedicated to St. Landry in Opelousas. The last time I had been there was ten years ago, ten days...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 21, 2009 Last week we focused in general on the heroic prayer, penance and preaching St. John Vianney engaged in to bring about the total conversion of his parish. Like any good shepherd...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 15, 2009 I spent the summer of 1996 in Portugal, where Bishop O’Malley sent me to study Portuguese at the University of Lisbon. Among the many highlights and memories from that time was the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 8, 2009 Over the next week, as Pope Benedict is in the Holy Land visiting the principal sites of our redemption, any of us who have had the privilege of making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 1, 2009 Ten days ago the Church marked the 900th anniversary of the birth into eternal life of the man Pope Benedict calls “one of the most luminous figures in the tradition of the Church and...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 24, 2009 Last Wednesday, I was in the capital of the world for the installation of Archbishop Timothy Dolan as the new shepherd of the Archdiocese of New York. Prior to the Mass, as I was...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 17, 2009 When I first entered Mount St. Mary’s seminary in Maryland, I met some fellow seminarians with a devotion to the Divine Mercy. They would often get together and recite the chaplet...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 10, 2009 One of the most moving moments of Pope Benedict’s recent trip to Africa was when he stopped at the Cardinal Léger Center in Yaounde, Cameroon on March 19. The center, founded in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 3, 2009 One of my great joys is to preach retreats and parish missions. In my first decade as a priest, I’ve given about 30 of them, to priests, seminarians, religious sisters and cloistered...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 27, 2009 Last Friday and Saturday, the Diocese of Fall River held its first ever Diocesan Reconciliation Weekend. As priests stepped into their confessionals and reconciliation rooms across...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 20, 2009 In his beautiful 1984 Apostolic Exhortation on the Sacrament of Penance entitled “Reconciliation and Penance,” Pope John Paul II names four “extraordinary apostles of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 13, 2009 We are celebrating this year the 150th anniversary of the birth into eternal life of the patron saint of parish priests, St. John Vianney (1786-1859. The Curé of the tiny French...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 6, 2009 During my seminary years, my parents would come to Rome to visit each February when plane fares would drop to as low as $300 round-trip. I would always arrange for them to stay...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 27, 2009 I sang a Te Deum early Monday morning when, after years of speculation, Pope Benedict named Archbishop Timothy Dolan of Milwaukee as the Archbishop of New York. With many of my...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 20, 2009 On Sunday night, the Academy Awards will be given out. It is the most important feast of the liturgical year for our culture’s new idolatry: the worship of celebrities. It begins...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 13, 2009 There’s something beautiful about St. Valentine’s Day. It’s a day on which romantic love is justly celebrated and couples feel inspired to show their affection for each other in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 6, 2009 Next Thursday we celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of the greatest president ever to serve our country. He has long been considered great on account of his most notable...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 30, 2009 This Sunday we will all get a chance to focus on a true hero whose impressive athletic exploits are eclipsed by his personal accomplishments. Here in New England, we can sometimes...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 23, 2009 Three years ago this Sunday, Pope Benedict published his first encyclical letter, Deus Caritas Est, about the love of God that we are called to receive and to share. In it he...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 16, 2009 On Tuesday I traveled to Immaculate Conception Church in Manhattan for the funeral of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, founder and editor-in-chief of First Things magazine, author of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 9, 2009 100 years ago today in Carracastle in County Mayo, Patrick Joseph Peyton was born, the sixth of nine children. Like so many born in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century, he...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 24, 2008 One of my Christmas traditions as a teenager, in a parish without a Christmas Midnight Mass, was to turn on NBC at 11:30 pm and watch the time-delay broadcast of the Midnight...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 19, 2008 Last week we encountered the heroism of the 35,000 Japanese martyrs who gave the supreme testimony to Christ between 1597-1639. It may have seemed a strange column to appear in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 12, 2008 No Catholics of any country have suffered more for their faith in Christ than the Japanese. Now, nearly 400 years after they endured the most systematically brutal persecution in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 5, 2008 Fifteen years ago this Monday, on the Solemnity of Mary’s Immaculate Conception in 1993, I did one of the most consequential things of my life. I was at Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 28, 2008 One of the great joys for me during this Year of St. Paul has been the opportunity to preach and teach about this great hero of our faith. I have been able to preach on St. Paul...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 21, 2008 During this month in which we celebrate all saints, it is fitting of course that we have some Americans to cheer. Last Thursday we celebrated the feast of St. Frances Xavier...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 14, 2008 On Tuesday we celebrated the feast of one of the most famous and influential saints of the early Church, St. Martin of Tours. His conversion story, charity, reputation for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 7, 2008 One of the most enjoyable and exhausting pilgrimages of my life began on Christmas night during my first year as a seminarian in Rome. With classmates from Illinois and Oklahoma...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 31, 2008 Tonight we celebrate All Hallows’ Eve, meant originally to be the vespers of the feast on which we celebrate all the saints in heaven and reflect on the vocation we’ve received...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 24, 2008 Last October 28 in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict presided over the largest beatification in the history of the Church, as 498 Spanish martyrs were raised to the altars. They...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 17, 2008 When I meet with couples preparing for marriage, we always discuss why Christian marriage is a sacrament. The ultimate purpose of every sacrament is to make those who receive it...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 10, 2008 Yesterday the Church marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII, the man chosen by God to lead the Church during one of the most terrible times in human history...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 3, 2008 On September 28, the Church marked the 30th anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul I, bishop of Rome for a stunningly brief 33 days. In a Church that thinks in centuries, his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 26, 2008 Tomorrow we celebrate the feast day of a saint whose name is known by almost all Catholics but whose remarkable life is known only by a few. In terms of the sheer amount of good...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 19, 2008 It is often commented how much our culture needs genuine heroes. These examples of virtue in the midst of ordinary and extraordinary vicissitude lift us up by revealing to us...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 12, 2008 When I became a seminarian in 1993, I began to pay much more attention to the Church’s liturgical calendar. I already had a strong devotion to the saints in general, nourished...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep September 5, 2008 Each morning, as I scan the news on the internet, I copy certain articles into digital folders on my computer, to serve as the raw material for future editorials or, if they...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 29, 2008 The second half of August is a time when students begin returning to college. It’s also a time when those preparing to be priests head to seminary. Most years this exodus of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 22, 2008 Yesterday we celebrated the feast of the birth into eternal life of the founder of the Diocese of Fall River, Pope St. Pius X. This saintly shepherd always had special affection...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 15, 2008 During my seminary years in Rome, when we needed a vacation but didn’t have much money to spend, we would generally head to Belgium. It was pretty easy to find a cheap, direct...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep August 8 2008 Eight years ago, during my last year of studies in Rome, I received an email from a friend with whom I used to work in Washington, DC. “Hi, Father Roger,” Peter wrote, “I just wanted...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 18, 2008 The last time I was in Portugal visiting my friends João and Maria and their seven wonderful kids, Maria took me to visit the ruins of a former Carmelite Church on the promontory...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 11, 2008 Back in 1994, as he was preparing the Church to put out into the deep for the third Christian millennium, Pope John Paul II wrote that “there is a need to foster the recognition of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep July 4, 2008 Sports are meant to play a larger role in human life than wins and losses. At every level — from youth leagues, to high school and NCAA programs, to professional sports — athletic...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 27, 2008 When I arrived in Rome as a seminarian thirteen years ago, I began to spend an inordinate amount of time in and around St. Peter’s Basilica. It was conveniently just down the hill...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 20, 2008 No matter how many times we hear the Lord’s words, “You must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Mt 24:44), they seem always to catch us off guard...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 13, 2008 The Church celebrates today one of the most popular saints of all time. Portuguese and Italians love him so much that both claim him as their own. The former call him St. Anthony of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep June 6, 2008 June is traditionally the month dedicated to Jesus’ Sacred Heart. It’s always struck me as noteworthy that we don’t have a feast of Jesus’ sacred brain, even though Jesus is...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 30, 2008 Over the past 40 years, since Rolf Hochbuth, a communist, wrote his fictional 1963 play The Deputy in order to undermine Church authority with the calumny that Pope Pius XII was a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 23, 2008 I’m writing from Italy where I’m the chaplain for a pilgrimage of American consecrated virgins who, after their international congress in Rome last week, have launched out with me on...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 16, 2008 On Sunday we celebrated Mother’s Day. It was a day for all of us to remember the inestimable gift of our mothers and of the importance of motherhood in a culture in which it so...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 9, 2008 Today we finish the series on the Vatican Scavi. I began the series five weeks ago, as we were waiting for the arrival of Pope Benedict, in order to buttress the faith of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep May 2, 2008 Last week we described the elation of the excavators when they found the prince of the apostle’s tomb underneath the main altar of St. Peter’s basilica in 1941, a victory monument...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 25, 2008 In the last two columns, we focused on Peter’s death — crucified upside down in the Circus of Caligula and Nero— and on his burial a short distance from the Circus on the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 18, 2008 After St. Peter died upside down on a cross in the Circus of Caligula and Nero, the surviving Christians obtained his body and buried him quickly nearby, on the steeply sloping...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 11, 2008 Besides the celebration of the sacraments, the greatest privilege of my life has been to be a guide to the Vatican Scavi, the Italian name for the excavations underneath St. Peter’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep April 4, 2008 Yesterday, I had the joy — while leading a pilgrimage of journalists and authors to Italy — of visiting Assisi and celebrating Mass at the tomb of one of the greatest and most...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 28, 2008 Though in our lifetimes, probably all of us have gotten to know some very holy priests, no native born American priest has ever been formally declared a saint. Moreover, in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 21, 2008 There are many saints fittingly associated with Good Friday: the Blessed Mother, the apostle John, Mary Magdalene, Simon of Cyrene, and Veronica. All of them, in one way or another...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 14, 2008 Because Holy Week is so important that it liturgically trumps every other feast, it’s led to some changes in the Church’s liturgical calendar this year. The solemnity of St. Joseph...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep March 7, 2008 We are two weeks from Good Friday, when we are called to stand at the foot of the Cross and behold Christ’s excruciating pain and the love for us that made such enormous pain...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 29, 2008 The Lord worked many miracles of healing in the Gospel. He did them as a response to faith and in order to buttress others’ faith in him, in his words, and in his saving deeds...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 22, 2008 Every other November, on Tuesday of the 33rd Week of Ordinary Time, daily Mass goers hear one of the most dramatic and inspiring passages of the entire Bible. It contains...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 15, 2008 We focused last week on the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the apparitions of Our Lady in Lourdes, France, which the Church celebrated on February 11. We considered the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 8, 2008 As we begin the season of Lent, God gives us a special feast day on Monday to orient us. It is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the apparitions of our Lady to St...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep February 1, 2008 Today is the end of Catholic Schools Week and our thoughts are naturally still with our young people, not just those who attend our parochial or diocesan schools, but the vastly...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 25, 2008 As I began last Wednesday to pore through hundred of submissions for the annual Catholic Schools Week essay contest, it was easy to anticipate how many of the diocese’s top first...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 18, 2008 Every year, within the heart of the Octave of Prayer for Church Unity, we celebrate on January 24 the feast of St. Francis de Sales. This is most fitting, because I think more...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep January 11, 2008 The vast majority of priests and religious say that the nourishment of their divine vocations began at home. It was in the domestic Church that they first learned about God — who...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 28, 2007 St. John, whose feast day the Church celebrated yesterday, is clearly one of the great figures of the history of Christianity. This “Son of Thunder” was one of the three singled...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 21, 2007 The most extensive Advent preparation of all was done, not by John the Baptist, not by Mary, not even by Isaiah, Jeremiah, Micah, Zephaniah and the other famous Advent prophets...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 14, 2007 One of the most rewarding years of my life was spent in Toronto at St. Philip’s Seminary. Thanks to the strict discipline of the seminary, its academic rigor and a brutally long...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep December 7, 2007 God has always called unlikely candidates to great missions. Abraham was too old to be a dad and David and Jeremiah too young to be heroes. Moses and St. Paul both had speech...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 30, 2007 The season of Advent that begins this weekend focuses on the great encounter each of us is called to have with the Lord. The Lord is coming — that’s what Advent literally means —...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 23, 2007 The Solemnity of Christ the King, which is celebrate on Sunday, is a relatively young feast. Pope Pius XI instituted it in 1925 at the request of bishops and faithful from around...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 16, 2007 On Tuesday, we celebrated the feast of the first American canonized saint. Born in 1850 near the Italian city of Lodi, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini had a hunger for holiness from...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 9, 2007 During the Jubilee Year of our Redemption in Rome during the year 2000, every time there was a morning event with Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square, St. Peter’s Basilica...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep November 2, 2007 After every scandal in the history of the Church, God has raised up great saints to bring his Church back to holiness. These saints are the ones who show the true face of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 26, 2007 October 28 is the feast day of Saint Jude, commonly known and invoked as the patron saint of hopeless causes. He remains one of the most popular of saints, probably because...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 19, 2007 This Sunday the Church celebrates World Missionary Sunday. When thinking about the missions, most of us think about far away lands, but the history of the first evangelization of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 12, 2007 Next Wednesday the Church celebrates the feast of one of the most heroic, influential and important saints of all time, St. Ignatius of Antioch, who was martyred in Rome in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Into the Deep October 5, 2007 The editorial on the left of this page focuses on Pope Benedict’s recent description of the inadequacy of a cold scientific study of God and the truths of the faith. God should...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Duc in Altum September 28, 2007 On Monday the Church celebrates one of the most lovable, and paradoxical, of saints: a doctor of the Church who did not receive even a high school education; the co-patroness of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Duc in Altum September 21, 2007 Of all recent saints, the one who has inspired the most devotion is Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, the 39th anniversary of whose birth into eternity the Church marks on September 23. One...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor September 14, 2007 This Sunday, September 16, marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân, the heroic Archbishop of Saigon who for the Gospel spent 13...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor September 7, 2007 The impact that the saints in heaven are supposed to have on us still on the pilgrimage of life is concisely summarized in the Preface for Holy Men and Women which the priest...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor August 31, 2007 St. Peter’s conversion came when, at Jesus’ word and against all piscatorial wisdom about catching fish in shallow water during darkness, he cast his nets out into deep water...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor August 24, 2007 Even though God created marriage and family to be an earthly image of the loving communion of persons who is the Blessed Trinity, many families do not bear even the slightest...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor August 17, 2007 A prophetic summary of the heroic life and death of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, whose feast day we celebrated on Tuesday, happened when he was a young boy growing up near Lodz...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor August 10, 2007 Yesterday the Church celebrated the memorial of Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a thoroughly modern saint with one of the most compelling personal stories of recent times. Born...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Out Into the Deep The Anchor August 3, 2007 To put out into the deep is simply to go for it. That’s what Jesus was telling Peter when he told him to throw his nets out for a catch. That’s what Pope John Paul II was urging...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor July 1, 2005 When I began this column seven months ago, I took as its theme Jesus’ words to St. Peter, “Put out into the deep and lower your nets for a catch” (Lk 5:4). This was the imperative...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 24, 2005 “Among those born of women, no one is greater than John the Baptist” (Lk 7:28 ). Truth incarnate once paid that supreme compliment, which is why the Church founded by Him...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 17, 2005 Pope Benedict has picked up right where his predecessor left off. Pope John Paul II spent most of his priesthood, and all of his pontificate, trying to strengthen the Christian...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 10, 2005 It was similar to when the Red Sox won the World Series. A huge crowd. Jubilation and standing ovations. Lots of kids in uniforms jubilantly giving each other high fives. Grown men...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor June 3, 2005 Because of the Incarnation, every part of Jesus’ body is sacred. We have never celebrated the feast of the Lord’s sacred brain, however, even though through it the Word...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor May 27, 2005 Since 1868, Americans have come together at the end of May to remember and honor those who have given their lives to protect and defend us, who have paid the supreme sacrifice so that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor May 20, 2005 One month ago today, on the day after his election as the successor of St. Peter, Pope Benedict XVI re-assembled the Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, celebrated together with them the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor May 13, 2005 From the time I was a boy, I have always been fascinated by the feast of Pentecost. When I was in grammar school, the wonder had to do with the fact that Pentecost is the “birthday of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor May 6, 2005 Prior to the papal conclave, I was asked hundreds of times by parishioners, friends, guys at the health club, and reporters, who I thought the next Pope would be. My staple response —...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 29, 2005 “Dear Brothers and Sisters, after the great John Paul II, the Cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord’s vineyard.” These were the first words of our new Holy...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 22, 2005 Almost two years before the Cardinal electors assembled in the Sistine Chapel to discern, with God’s help, the one to whom they should pass the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 15, 2005 On Monday, 115 Cardinal electors will enter the Sistine Chapel and begin their work of discerning, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the one God the Father will reveal as the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor Special Edition Upon the Death of Pope John Paul II April 9, 2005 If there were ever any doubt, Pope John Paul II’s funeral was evidence of how extraordinarily important a figure he was within the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 8, 2005 On the walls to the right and left of the tabernacle in Pope John Paul II’s private chapel in the Vatican, there are large basrelief sculptures of the deaths of Saints Peter and Paul...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor April 1, 2005 Catholics can easily recall when Jesus instituted the Sacrament of the Eucharist. He did it during the first Mass, which began during the Last Supper with the words of consecration...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 25, 2005 No greater homily has ever been given than the one Jesus preaches today, nailed to his perpendicular pulpit. It consists of a mere seven sentences, spread over the span of three...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 18, 2005 Next week we mark the tenth anniversary of the papal encyclical Evangelium Vitae, which may be the most important and prophetic document of John Paul II’s pontificate. Perhaps more...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 11, 2005 Last month the last of the three Fatima visionaries, Sr. Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Sacred Heart, better known by her baptismal name, Lucia dos Santos, died at age 97. As long as...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor March 4, 2005 Each year of his pontificate, the Holy Father has written a Lenten message to guide and inspire Catholics throughout the world better to understand and live the meaning of this...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting Into The Deep The Anchor February 25, 2005 Last March, I saw one of the real signs of the “new springtime” in the Church to which Pope John Paul II frequently refers. It was the annual Catholic Men’s Conference for the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor February 18, 2005 Scripture scholars often describe the four Gospels as “passion accounts with very long introductions.” This is because the preaching of the apostles — and the earliest Christian...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor February 11, 2005 Lent is a forty day uphill pilgrimage with Jesus. Jesus starts by taking us, on the first Sunday, to a desert mountain where he teaches us by example how to say no to the devil’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor February 4, 2005 “What would become of the world if there were no religious?” That’s the question St. Teresa of Avila asked aloud in her 16th century autobiography. It’s also the question Pope...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 28, 2005 The celebration of Catholic Schools Week causes us to reflect on the blessing of a Catholic education and why it is worth the many sacrifices — from parents, teachers, parish...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 21, 2005 Thirteen years ago I went to jail for the first time, to interview a pro-life hero for a magazine I had helped to found in college. Bill Cotter had been sentenced to two-and-a...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 14, 2005 Right before Christmas, as he met with his chief collaborators in the Roman Curia, Pope John Paul II made a statement that caught many in the media — and in the Church — off-guard...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor January 7, 2005 After John the Baptist had pointed out Jesus as the Lamb of God, St. Andrew and a friend ran after Jesus and spent the rest of the afternoon with him. Then Andrew went to find his...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor December 24, 2004 It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth, the night when “he appeared and the soul felt its worth.” Those words from “O Holy Night,” like the lyrics from most treasured...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor December 17, 2004 Last week we marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, easily the most famous and perhaps the most influential American Catholic priest of the 20th...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor December 10, 2004 Two days ago, the Church celebrated a monumental 150th anniversary and two even more important realities. On December 8, 1854, Blessed Pope Pius IX solemnly proclaimed as a dogma...
Fr. Roger J. Landry Putting into the Deep The Anchor December 3, 2004 With the first Sunday of Advent, the Church begins a new liturgical year and the Anchor, not missing a beat, inaugurates a new column. I’m grateful to Monsignor Moore for the...
Father Roger J. Landry The Anchor February 13, 2004 Catholics are accustomed to asking themselves, “What would Jesus do?” in their situations or “What would Jesus say?” The answers to those questions generally make clear for us what we in turn...