When Pope John Paul II first proclaimed today as a universal Feast of the Divine Mercy, there were plenty of liturgists who tut-tutted. Easter, with its eight days, they rightly pointed out, is the most important feast or celebration in the…
At the end of the Prologue to his Gospel, St. John tells us: No one has ever seen God. But the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known (1:18). We are rightly used to thinking of St. Thomas as...