Redeeming Disney
“I kissed you like the prince, and now you’re all better!” I was sick a few weeks ago, and my three-year-old son tried to make
“I kissed you like the prince, and now you’re all better!” I was sick a few weeks ago, and my three-year-old son tried to make
One of the most horrifying things I’ve seen as a chaplain intern is a mother curled up in bed holding her dead teenage daughter. I’ve
If you take a quick poll of the next ten strangers you encounter and ask them about the Catholic Church and its attitude towards in
In a column last month on Salon.com, Jessica Ciencin Henriquez – a fabulous writer, as far as I can tell – called her virginity
All around the World people are making final preparations for World Youth Day in July, my thoughts wandered back to its beginnings. canada generic viagra
How interesting it is to be a young, newly married, Catholic in light of the quickly changing moral code of our country. The Supreme Court’s
Recently, I had the opportunity to go on a weekend Catholic men’s camping trip. During our time in the wilderness we had the opportunity to
In my last column, I discussed the distinctions between abstinence, chastity, and purity, noting that the first of these is a means to an end,
If we face up to the facts, we have lost some serious ground in the culture wars. It is not because what we have to
By Joseph Summers “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is
A few weeks ago I wrote something criticizing public schooling over this incident. It got the ire up of friends and family members, many of
One of my fondest memories of my grandmother is watching Little House on the Prairie with her when I was a child. Knowing she loved
Never mind “the Galileo controversy” (a good response to that is here, by the way). The Church should rule the world. One of the things
Abnegation. To be honest until recently I had no idea what that word meant. And probably not surprisingly since it is an idea that isn’t common
Recently I’ve come across several posts on the internet addressing the question of rape and whether or not we are victim blaming in asking questions
The best advertisement for modesty is the example of a woman who combines it with good taste. We women who are already convinced that we
The Internet is a great source for conspiracy theories. YouTube especially is rife with ominously voiced over expository segments on the Illuminati and the New
In my last article on the subject of video games and the New Evangelization I briefly went into my own passion for games and how
I have a love/hate relationship with the comment box. On my blog where it’s moderated and readers are spiritually mature and have attended Combox-Finnishing school,
The above quote from Venerable Fulton Sheen caused some consternation on the Ignatius Press Quotables Facebook page, and among some of my friends when I
I recently had dinner with three fabulous girls. One is married, the other two are single. Our conversation turned towards the single life and we