The world is constantly telling women that we aren’t good enough. We go unseen, unsought, unpursued, and this all leads us to believe that we are unworthy. Unworthy of what, you ask? Unworthy of happiness, joy, love, peace, and any good thing that life could offer us. These lies, straight from the mouth of Satan, [...]
And this is precisely what Christianity is about. This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there is a rumour going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life. —C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity Isn’t this a lovely picture? And so very accurate—we are lifeless [...]
Today I’d like to share with you Behold, Your Mother! a teen girl’s reflections on the Holy Rosary. First of all, I would like to applaud the author, Grace Belle-Oudry. It takes a lot of courage to talk about faith with a number of people you will never meet. It takes a lot of courage [...]
With mercury we measure pain as we measure the heat of bodies and air; but this is not how to discover our limits– you think you are the center of things. If only you could grasp that you are not: the center is He and Hem too, finds no love– why don’t you see? [...]
Ever heard any of these dismal statements? “Young Catholics are totally disconnected from the faith.” “There are no young Catholics engaged in the Church anymore.” “The Church is a dying institution.” If you ever discuss the faith outside of the four walls of a parish, you probably have. If you’re like me, though, I prefer [...]
While writing her opinions of several C.S. Lewis books she had recently finished, a friend of mine remarked: “The more I learn, the more I want to love.” This sentence resonated with me because it reflected such an honest and beautiful desire of the soul to continue to learn more about her Divine Spouse. Here she [...]
It was 2006, the time the Da Vinci Code movie was released. Debates buzzed in Catholic blogosphere, while the billboards advertising the movie were displayed throughout the city. It was hard not to see Leonardo’s Last Supper and not think “Dan Brown”. But another feature of the painting caught my attention. This, and all the [...]
In roughly 24 hours, the Sacred Triduum will begin. During these three days, the Church commemorates in a solemn manner the Passion, Death, and Burial of her Spouse, Our Blessed Lord. These days are a time to enter into more fervent prayer. For those of us who wonder “Where did Lent go?” and feel that [...]
Though I had a different post idea for this month, upon realizing that no one had reviewed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey for IT yet I could not allow another minute to pass without correcting such a circumstance! I originally posted this review at The St. Austin Review’s Ink Desk. This does contain spoilers, so beware, and enjoy! A [...]
Ask any Catholic about “Pope Benedict’s book” and the answer you’ll likely get is “Jesus of Nazareth.” But as great as that book is, the reality of the situation is that Pope Benedict is a prolific writer, authoring about 60 or so other books. I have a feeling that we will be exploring the richness [...]
My Sisters The Saints: A Powerful Journey I found My Sisters The Saints, Colleen Carroll Campbell’s new book, in my stocking on the morning of St. Nicholas Day, opened it, and could not put it down. Where Campbell’s first book, The New Faithful, was based on interviews and chronicled the tendency toward orthodoxy among the [...]
When someone mentions Theology of the Body to you, what do you think? Most young Catholics think that this refers to John Paul II’s writings on human sexuality and marriage, but many do not have any idea after that. I, myself, would have been included in this group before I read the book, Theology of [...]
I spent some precious free time these past few weeks reading Janet Morana’s new book Recall Abortion. As a mother of 5 young homeschooled children my free time is rare, believe me. What is even rarer though is me being pulled back to a book with a sense of determination to not only finish reading [...]
If I could, I would subtitle this “Reflections on Providence: Robinson Crusoe Style”. Robinson Crusoe is the classic tale of a reckless young man who finds himself shipwrecked and trapped on a deserted island, alone with rescued provisions, strange animals, and trouble thoughts. And though I haven’t exactly been enjoying reading it, the life lessons [...]
Once upon a time, angels directed shepherds to the Christ Child’s manger; how much harder it seems to find God in our midst today. Have the processes of intellectual evolution rendered faith impracticable—obsolete? One contemporary writer considers just a few of the difficulties that Christianity poses to the modern mind: The difficulty begins with the [...]
When I was young, my mother would bring me to the library every week. Because I was a voracious reader, she did not worry whether I would read the books I checked out. But she did make a rule to help me choose the right books, and it has stuck with me ever since. I could [...]
To improve my English and to strengthen my faith during this Year of Faith, I chose to read some novels written by Bruce Marshall (1899-1987). I had already read the Italian version, thanks to the Jaca Book publisher house. The first book I read was
It has been over a decade since I first read Christopher West’s Good News About Sex and Marriage and then made it required reading for the RCIA program I coordinated. I couldn’t help myself. If there was one area in which people seemed most confused it was the Catholic vision of sexuality and I had not seen [...]
Looking ahead, Advent begins in less than a month, so now’s a good time to prepare for how you will prepare. Just in time for this preparation is Fr. Gary Caster’s new book The Little Way of Advent: Meditations in the Spirit of St. Therese of Lisieux. Fr. Caster, a priest of the Diocese of [...]
I remembered the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) trilogy several times while I was reading Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Spe Salvi five years ago. When someone, upon encouraging me to read the encyclical, recounted to me the encyclical’s treatment of eternal life, death, immortality, and the human dilemma between not wanting to die and not wanting [...]
For the first time in over 50 years, the Knox translation of the Bible is being reprinted through Baronius Press. But, what is the Knox Bible? The
“Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?” This is the question pondered by Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner at a forced-labor camp in the Soviet Gulag system. Shukhov is the imagined narrator of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Though Shukhov may be fictional, his experiences come out [...]
“Forget about man-made religion, man! Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?” It is likely that we’ve all been on at least one side of that question, possibly both. Before leaving Assemblies of God, I was one of the loudest and proudest when it came to purposefully shearing off anything that I decided [...]
I had the privilege of seeing George Weigel, Pope John Paul II’s personal biographer not long after the Polish Pope was beatified. I’ve spent the last couple weeks reading Weigl’s Witness to Hope which documents the Pontiff’s life and it’s been crazy. Crazy in a good way. It’s packed with history, theology, philosophy, letters and [...]
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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