One of my friends was a Buddhist when she and her family narrowly escaped being raped or killed by riots against the Chinese in the
One afternoon, I was on a bus to the city when a disheveled young man boarded the bus. He was in gray pajamas, barefoot, and
The Christian movie King’s Faith (2013), available on Netflix, is a beautiful and moving story of faith and redemption. Best of all, it manages to
The sexual abuse crises in Catholic dioceses from the USA to Ireland have created great distress and fomented considerable media attention. It is a sickening
Fr. Douglas Bazi (a.k.a Abouna Douglas Joseph Shimshon Al-Bazi) recently spoke at the 2017 Spirit in the City conference in Brisbane. He spoke of how
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from where I am.
Lawyers are taught to listen carefully to what our clients say and to ask questions, because a client might think that one issue presents the
“They must be going to the beatification!” I yelped happily, as I pointed towards a well-dressed group of people walking down the sidewalk. It was
[Caution: spoilers ahead] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is a moving paean to fatherhood. The entire movie centers around Henry Turner’s
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. – James Russell Lowell, poet Ultimately, we all have to decide
The Jungle Book (2016) is a masterful adaptation of Kipling’s book, paying due homage to the classic Disney film with its meshing of the familiar
One of my favorite throwaway phrases is “first world problems.” It never fails to make me laugh. Whether it’s my sister and a friend complaining
I just went through a difficult time. As I sat there closing one eye, then opening it while closing the other, going back and forth
Guest post by Anonymous I was seven when my entire world changed. The life I knew, the life I thought was coming. Gone. You may
“For nothing will be impossible with God.” —Luke 1:37 St. Rita of Cascia is the patron saint of impossible causes. During her life, St. Rita
Someone told me a few weeks ago, in the middle of a martial arts related discussion, “I think that stuff is cool, but I don’t
This has been a rough week for our family. On Wednesday our daughter, Evie, had a series of six seizures for no apparent reason. She had
“Abuse (and the trauma that results from it) causes not only the anxiety of meaninglessness and the anxiety of guilt, but also the anxiety of
Over the past week, the Gospel readings have contained many scenes of healing from Jesus’s public ministry. We know that Jesus performed many miraculous healings
Sometimes, when one hears of a poor fellow being scammed, losing his savings to a nonexistent online girlfriend, or wasting thousands on damaging psychobabble seminars,
If you love me, you will keep my commandments.[1] On the face of it, Christ’s words seem obvious: of course we’ll obey Christ because we
