Robert Mixa

Sep 10, 2024 | adoremus.org | Robert Mixa |Thomas Kocik |Joseph O'Brien

September 15 is usually observed as Our Lady of Sorrows. The memorial is immediately adjacent to the Exaltation of the Cross, underscoring the linkage between Jesus’ Passion and Mary’s own sufferings. Only because September 15 is a Sunday in 2024 is the memorial preempted. Just in time for the occasion is a new book on “contemplating the Seven Sorrows” of Our Lady. The authors have assembled a formidable set of spiritual resources.

Sep 7, 2024 | adoremus.org | Joseph Fessio |Robert Mixa

Editor’s note: It’s not uncommon that the parish RCIA process gets underway in the fall of the year. This beginning, coupled with the imminent implementation of the revised Order of Christian Initiation of Adults—optional on the First Sunday of Advent (December 1, 2024) and mandatory for use on Ash Wednesday (March 5, 2025)—offers an occasion to answer common canonical questions in the RCIA.

Feb 13, 2023 | wordonfire.org | Robert Mixa

At the Catholic Imagination Conference at the University of Dallas, I had the pleasure of briefly talking to Cynthia Haven, author of books on Nobel poets Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky, as well as a biography of one of Bishop Barron’s favorite thinkers, René Girard. All of these authors interest me, but my main purpose was to ask her about Miłosz and her new book Czesław Miłosz: A California Life.  I’m married to a Pole, and we travel to Poland almost every year.