Creating a baby registry at Babies R Us, can be something of a spiritual epiphany. As my wife and I approached the priestesses at the
The following was a reflection I prepared for my prayer group, but I am also indebted to them for some of the insights that followed.
How do you judge good music? What are your standards? When do you know that you’ve encountered an incredible song or artist? One way I
I remember taking our frozen wedding cake out on our first anniversary, only to discover it was not the same cake we had put in
Christ spent 3 years forming 12 men. Those men went on to change the world.
“God was made man…If I could love a leper’s sores, couldn’t I love the boringness of Henry? But I’d turn from the leper if he
A year and a half ago, my husband received a phone call that would change our lives. A priest friend of ours was starting a
There is a growing nemesis in the world today: Boredom. I’m bored, accompanied by a pathetic sigh, is something every parent, teacher, minister, or anyone,
It is a dog-eat-dog world out there. And I wonder, how much do we let this affect our spiritual lives? Every TV show from Biggest
When we think about poverty, we usually think about starving children in the third world, the homeless, or the elderly living on fixed incomes. We
“The things which we Christians embrace by divine faith, and which are not to be received except by divine faith, are humanly incredible. They are
An elderly woman stands at the votive candle area and lights eight large candles. She says a prayer and then finds her place in the
Warning: This article deals with infant death and parent grief. Recently Travis and I found ourselves at the hospital at the orthopedic surgeon’s office again. This
“Choose someone God-fearing, and make God the center of your relationship.” When this advice was given in a talk for college students about dating and
Or: “Why We Need to Stop Fighting over Venerable Sheen’s Body” What would Venerable Sheen say about the public debate over the progression of his
Christians have a complicated relationship with violence. Our founder (Christ) died by violence in absolute meekness—living out to the extreme his teaching that when confronted
My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. In choosing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned
Healing Wounds Begins With Radical Love It’s a beautiful Autumn Sunday morning at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. The homily is over, the Creed has been
I confess, I am an avid Packer fan; last year I went to the playoff game at Lambeau Field when the wind chill was 40
This weekend, for the first time in a while, we didn’t have anything scheduled on Saturday. To take advantage of that, my wife and I
By Sarah Summers Granger “I dream of a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything.” – Pope Francis Ten years ago, I didn’t want a transformative
