In my youth, I prayed the rosary with my grandmother or other ladies from the parish after daily Mass. Before the first three Hail Marys,
I heard that fans of Star Trek tried to translate the Bible into the fictional language of Klingon…but they couldn’t do it, because there was
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, natural virtue (justice, prudence, temperance and courage, and all the subset virtues) are acquired virtues. Acquired virtues are those good-habits
Growing up, my life revolved around baseball – I played it in high school and college, and passionately followed the sport. In contrast, my dad’s
“Put not your trust in princes,” we are warned (Psalm 146:3). During the last eight years, excepting possibly during the midterm elections, most faithful Catholics
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and
Fairy tales (especially princesses and Santa Claus) get a lot of crap. From comments such as, “princesses teach girls that the only way to attain
The past month has been, for me, a month of humbling lessons in generosity as millions worldwide answered calls to help my fellow-Filipinos who survived
“Live as though dying daily.” -St. Antony of Egypt, as recorded by St. Athanasius We have almost no viable perspective from which to evaluate our
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,
I feel I can speak for many people that Catholic teaching on sexuality comes across most of the time as a big laundry list of
These are notes from my prayer journal that I wrote on 8/22/12. I was struggling with the feeling that I haven’t achieved enough in life. I think we all go through that phase–it’s an on-and-off thing. I felt like they needed to be shared. It isn’t worth losing yourself and wringing out your soul for the sake of worldly praise. Sometimes, though, it’s very tempting to think so.
There is a great fear among women that we are being under-appreciated. It’s not that we women want all the power; we just want credit
If it causes pain, it cannot be true. This principle, it seems to me, is an unspoken premise underlying the general public’s passionate opposition to
Most of the time I assume myself to be a person falling into the same category Churchill found himself in when dealing with people he
I once heard Father say in a homily that no saint was ever canonized for being prudent. He went on to explain that it is
On a visit to the National Gallery of Art in DC the other day, I ended up in the same exhibit room as two middle-aged
“The more money we spend on schools today, the less we’ll have to spend on missiles tomorrow.” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote that
So when is the last time you heard someone talk about the virtues? Honestly, we spend so much time defending our faith, and morals that
Here, my friends, we have a chart illustrating the rot infecting the soul of the modern West. Or, at least, that fraction of the West
