A Simple Stable
With my job come several wonderful perks. Attending weekly mass with the Catholic School is one of them. It’s a K-8 school, and my favorite
With my job come several wonderful perks. Attending weekly mass with the Catholic School is one of them. It’s a K-8 school, and my favorite
I was recently speaking to a Catholic woman whose daughter is getting married later this year. I inquired about what church the marriage was to take place
Everything that Jesus did in His life can be summed up in two basic movements that integrally tied to each other. First, Christ proclaimed the
That Christmas has become more and more secularized is obvious. But we are not helpless against the tide. There are things we can do to
Sometimes we all need encouraging to step out for what’s right, and that’s perfectly okay, but sometimes we don’t get the encouragement from our peers.
The Church, our Mother, knows that we need two seasons of discipline. Lent is for justice. Lent is when the hands of the Divine shake
“And Mary said: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior” – Luke 1:46-47 Given that this coming
So once again in Australia we see the inner workings of the Catholic Church being dissected by an audience that has little understanding of, or
The works of William Shakespeare abound with the truths of the Catholic faith. Especially in his later plays (often called the “romances”), Shakespeare focuses his
I wish I could say that I’ve only been to the hospital once because I was bleeding profusely from my head. At least the second
If you want to be a good Catholic, you gotta read your Bible. But the Church advises us: “sacred tradition, Sacred Scripture and the teaching authority
I love being let down. I’ve started relishing the realization that I have to relinquish what I thought a given outcome would look and feel like
I really do love our priests. There are so many holy and faithful servants that never tire to bring souls to Christ. My pastor at
Over the past several weeks, faithful Catholics have been circling the wagons in an attempt to understand what’s gone wrong with the culture, and what
Once again I let this blog sneak up on me. My first clue that it was my week to write an IT post was when
In January 1864, the Protestant pastor and novelist Charles Kingsley reviewed an English history book for Macmillan’s Magazine. The review began innocently enough. Kingsley critiqued
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. This is my commandment: love one another
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
The man Saul of Tarsus was once a terrible name to the infant Church of Christ as he was noted to carry out torture and
I did a lot of thinking in my idealistic twenties about how I’m going to start a revolution and change the world. At times, as
(among other things) To our dear separated brothers and sisters, nothing comes across as more counterintuitive to the Christian religion than the Pope. The great german theologian,