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I recently traveled to Austin for my wife’s Half Ironman. She did great. We had a chance to go to a pre-race confession at St.
I recently traveled to Austin for my wife’s Half Ironman. She did great. We had a chance to go to a pre-race confession at St.
From my pastor’s homily this weekend: “Either a Christian heightens the quality of human life, making it more palatable, more delightfully nourishing, or else he
One of the things that I often ponder is the relationship between the Christian and wealth. That is, how much wealth should I accumulate, how
A common methodological error of novice apologists is proof-texting (yes, Catholic apologists are just as guilty of this fallacy as our Protestant brethren). Proof-texting can
I tend to be a very introspective individual. My spiritual life consists largely in self-examination, and used to be even more so. I would look
I was giving a talk at my home parish on the early Church when a woman came up to me. Pointing at her heart she
Liturgy is a lot like parenting. No. Liturgy IS parenting. Jesus Christ is the groom and His Church the bride. Together they have done a
In college I went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I am not much of a science geek so I
As Halloween approaches, I hear people commenting on their costumes, debating the perfect way to capture a vampire, make a ghost, or exemplify a
Children have minds of their own. They do their own thing and love to find ways to become their own person. This makes it difficult
Well, the Hail Mary is a historical and biblical phrase addressed by an angel of God to a virgin called Mary. This historic event is
When my fiancé and I were still just dating, we approached our priest and spiritual director and asked him how we might discern if we
My training is in Classics. That kind of nearly obsessive focus on grammar bears some peculiar fruit in my day to day life. For one,
The other day I was at daily Mass when I saw a woman praying a rosary throughout the Liturgy. I was upset, but not just with her; I was upset that we don’t pay enough attention to the beauty of the heavenly liturgy.
Most of us will never go to a foreign land to spread the gospel. We just don’t have the support to drop everything and travel
Let’s talk about awkward for a minute. How about when your family is talking about the wedding someone just went to: the flowers, the ceremony,
I am sorry to be the one to raise this issue but I am going to put it straight out there so there is no
Since Feb. 28, 2013 — the last day of Pope Benedict’s papacy — I’ve been harboring a secret. A secret I’m ready to share. I
What would it be like for God to send a prophet among us? How would we of today’s society respond? Would it be like in
This morning I witnessed the coolest thing. My husband and I were on our way to work, winding through the back roads when we saw
By James Franke I’ve heard the argument a hundred times, phrased a hundred different ways. It all boils down to the same basic mentality: short