Sometimes it is necessary to stop ourselves and retreat, to open ourselves and realign our thinking with the ways of God. If we don’t do
I was inspired to re-post this article after reading Cristina Montes”s On Spe Salvi and The Lord of the Rings. I would highly recommend that
I’ve heard it opined by the occasional atheist that he not only believes that God does not exist, but actually desires to be right in
Then He also said to him who invited Him, “When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your
From the Roman collar to the brown scapular, the Church has developed a plethora of physical signs one can sport to testify to his faith
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
Lest you think I’m writing about the “other” cafeteria Catholic as one standing in judgment, I want to give you a little back story. I
A couple of months ago I logged-on to find the following e-mail appropriately shuffled into my high priority inbox: “How you do keep your hope?
“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
Mary Magdalene with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour You will die. A friend of mine sells life insurance. He told me that every time someone new
On Good Friday, 2008, fewer than 24 hours before my wife and I joined the Catholic Church, I spoke to my father-in-law on the
In January of 2006, just short of my 20th birthday, I stood in front a priest, my friends, and 2,000 people at a parish and
What if Cardinal Timothy Dolan became Pope? That’s probably a long-shot, but it’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more especially as his star
“The Lord showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, whie Satan stood at his right hand to accuse him.
Amazing. Beautiful. Necessary. – It’s difficult to find the right words to describe the angelically perfect sound of Advent At Ephesus – an upcoming
After almost a year of ballet I’m still super horrible. I never realized how physically demanding it was, how literally every muscle in your body
Today is the feast of Blessed John Paul II. He is often referred to as John Paul the Great, but I will always know him
Many people are wondering why Catholics hold those beads called the Rosary in their hands and what’s the real inspiration behind them. In this
This month marks the beginning of the Year of Faith. It has gotten me thinking; do I really have faith? If I lived at the
This fall I have been working at CatholicVote.org. While we do a lot of different things, one of the things we are best known for
Our first child was lost to miscarriage. He was too young to know his gender but my husband felt confident that he was a boy
