Building Community with Ministry
Maybe you love your parish and it’s almost perfect, but it’s missing just one little thing – a niche for you. The priest is great, his
Maybe you love your parish and it’s almost perfect, but it’s missing just one little thing – a niche for you. The priest is great, his
I have been told more times than I can count that if I were truly against abortion I would have to be pro-contraception. “Contraception prevents unwanted pregnancies,” the argument goes, “so putting women on reliable birth control would cut down on unwanted pregnancies and there would be fewer abortions.”
For the average practicing Catholic, dating can be really fun. After all, you’re young, ready to discern marriage, and maybe even ready to start a family of your own. But when it comes to the questions…
Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees His
There seems to be a growing idea in our world today that we don’t actually need men for much more than their “contribution” to the
The morning after my future sister’s wedding, my fiance and I attended the family brunch and were asked the question: short or long engagement? B.
There were a few words, often repeated in the news coverage of the recent Colorado shooting by James Holmes, which stood out to me like red signal lights: “loner who said little and was easily forgotten”, “kept to himself” and “didn’t seem to have many friends.”
Every morning, my six month old baby boy looks up out of his crib with wide blue eyes and smiles around his pacifier as I
This is a post I wrote for my youngest brother who leaves for basic training next week. I would appreciate it if everyone could say
It’s interesting how different reality looks when it’s on paper, in neat paragraphs, all in the right order. There, I am a powerhouse. I am
I read a blog post a few weeks ago titled “3 Things I Secretly Hate About NFP“. The author’s reasons for hating NFP are that
In an attempt to stay plugged in to American culture while I live overseas for 16 months, I have regularly acquainted myself with the Billboard
When I saw the reaction against Chick-fil-A last week, I was moved to come out of hiding in regards to the “gay marriage” debate. I
I had no idea when I wrote my last post that it would generate so much controversy. I certainly had no idea it would offend so many
This post is a response to When NCB Meets NCG. I thought it would be appropriate for an actual Good Catholic Man (father of five, husband
Last year, Sr. Lisa challenged me to examine my vocation and I did… kind of. Tony called me on my bull you-know-what, correctly so. I spent the next while asking a lot of questions I never wanted to fully explore.
…Butts. OR: A Man Who Wipes Bottoms (for those that find “butt” offensive) What I am talking about is the awkward “line in the sand”
In the last few months since I subscribed to Auntie Seraphic,* I have repeatedly seen the acronyms “NCB” and “NCG” plastered all over the single
Life has a way of coming up and tossing you the unexpected, and I encountered a new twist in life just recently when I got
“St. Anne, St. Anne find me a man” is a popular piety that has been repeated by many single Catholic ladies on the eve of her feast day.
“You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have eyes to see” Mother Teresa profoundly remarks in this video (at about 2:20). She explains