Last year, Sr. Lisa challenged me to examine my vocation and I did… kind of. Tony called me on my bull you-know-what, correctly so. I spent the next while asking a lot of questions I never wanted to fully explore.
…Butts. OR: A Man Who Wipes Bottoms (for those that find “butt” offensive) What I am talking about is the awkward “line in the sand”
If it causes pain, it cannot be true. This principle, it seems to me, is an unspoken premise underlying the general public’s passionate opposition to
In the last few months since I subscribed to Auntie Seraphic,* I have repeatedly seen the acronyms “NCB” and “NCG” plastered all over the single
Originally published at Brandon’s blog, BrandonVogt.com. With the HHS mandate still under review, contraception remains a hot topic. Across the country from Facebook walls, to news
Meghan’s parents were with her as she waited to check in at the airport. Her father asked her again, “Why are you doing this?” With
Life has a way of coming up and tossing you the unexpected, and I encountered a new twist in life just recently when I got
“St. Anne, St. Anne find me a man” is a popular piety that has been repeated by many single Catholic ladies on the eve of her feast day.
“You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have eyes to see” Mother Teresa profoundly remarks in this video (at about 2:20). She explains
The Church provides a framework for a physician that is marvelously adapted to the realities of life and death. No-one would want to prescribe drugs without standard doses. Why would anyone want to operate in such a morally fraught field as medicine without a standard of conduct?
As a man who savors each and every opportunity he has to eat a fried chicken sandwich and waffle fries from the company that provided
Working with teens, most of my favorite questions deal with Mary. Mary is awesome, and there are a lot of misconceptions about what Catholics do
“In my time, I have heard two quite different arguments against my religion put forth in the name of science. When I was a youngster,
The curly-haired woman with the bright orange shirt looks up, gently plays a chord on her guitar, and for the third time this morning, kills
The blog dispute last week in the Protestant world was waged between the conservative Reformed Protestants from The Gospel Coalition and liberal/emergent Protestant blogger Rachel Held
I have always loved Fresh Air with Terry Gross on National Public Radio (NPR). She is the perfect interviewer, intelligent, compassionate, and always knowledgeable about
“The greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one
Allow me to take you way, way back in time….all the way to 2007! (Hey, five years is a lot when you’re still in high
One night last week I was driving home late with all five kids sleeping soundly in their car seats when Lady Antebellum’s song “Just a
The only time I have ever wanted to be a missionary of any sort was when I met a Franciscan sister from Togo. She was
Mr. Fulwiler, how is it going? So, I see you have contributed over at Catholic Exchange. You offered some good thoughts on Libertarianism. I would
