TJ Burdick is the lead author of One Body, Many Blogs, Advice for Christian Bloggers. He is also a school teacher by trade, a lay Catholic by grace and a husband and father of two by vocation. He writes to help support Catholic charities and to put food on the table for his family as his teaching wages are very humble. When he is not enjoying time with his family, you can find him planning his next big lesson or locked inside an adoration chapel. You can find more of his work at @ tjburdick.com.
“Think about what would happen if New Advent, Catholic Answers, Busted Halo, and Ignitum Today all fused together into one website for youth…” I teach 7th grade. Don’t worry, I’m completely sane, even at the end of the school year when my students’ hormones are raging and the scent of summer fills their nostrils. Granted, [...]
I’m married to Pope Francis. I came to this realization the other day when my wife and I were musing through a Catholic book store and she stopped and marveled at the amount of written work our beloved Holy Father Emeritus, Pope Benedict XVI, has produced. “He wrote a lot,” she commented as she peered [...]
For the English translation of this column, scroll down. El Papa Francisco es una manifestación de la diversidad de la iglesia Católica. El corazón latino palpita fuertemente con orgullo por ser católico, pero los países latinoamericanos todavía sufren por la corrupción, la pobreza y el dolor de la injusticia. Desde que llegaron los europeos con [...]
Just over a year ago, a couple of seminarians opened up a YouTube channel. They quickly became the talk of the Catholic online world due to their unique creativity in online evangelization. They call themselves the Brothers in Black and I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down to chat with them about what they [...]
The media has had a field day with the Pope during the past 24 hours. Facebook postings, memes, blogposts and tweets galore have pelted the screens of Catholics and non-Catholics alike and justly so, it has been 800 years since a Pope has resigned. Everyone is interested, but what is more important is that everyone is [...]
Sure. Catholics have the fullness of truth, the awe of all things beautiful and ownership of everything that is good, but this spectator remains humbled by how much better other religions put these ideals into practice. For example: 1. Taking time for prayer Our Muslim brothers and sisters dominate the skies with prayer storms on [...]
Here it is, God’s report card. Just in time for the end of the year! Print it out, magnetize it to your fridge, and consult it every time you have a parent teacher conference with God. Oh, and forgive me for being so teachery. I do that sometimes. Click on the image to enlarge or [...]
Mexico is a crux for some great Orthodox Catholic practices. During my time there as a missionary, one practice in particular struck me as especially reverent- the acceptance of the Eucharist on the tongue. While serving, my wife and I were blessed enough to go to daily mass and this accepting-Christ-by-the-hand gringo was doing pretty [...]
If you are one of the 3,000,000 people who have listened to Paul Harvey’s prophetic manifestation of the devil’s activity circa 1964, then you might like this new 2012 remix. Check out the full text @ my blog. What would you do if you were the devil?
Although not surprising, it is astonishing that Catholicism is viewed by the world so negatively. As Peter Kreeft mentions in his talk Seven Reasons Everyone on Earth Should Be a Roman Catholic, “We’re like an iron ball in the pit of the world’s stomach, we can’t be digested, we can’t be assimilated”. As it is, [...]
Q. How do you pronounce “ignitum”? A. Well, you have some options. The Romans would have said ig-NEE-toom. In church, we’d say “in-YEE-toom.”
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