This is a lesson for which I will be forever in debt to Dr. Brant Pitre. He taught it to me, and I’m passing it
Debates over North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” and Target’s policy of allowing men and women to use a restroom that doesn’t match their biological sex, but
When Pope Francis issued his post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, the mainstream media and major Catholic websites were all over it, highlighting the broad structure of
Several months ago, I started writing a post about how difficult it is to be Catholic during the peak seasons of political campaigns. Here’s how
Between the release of the official teaser trailer and the full-blown trailer to Fuller House, the two videos have racked up over 18 million views
A few years ago, my wife and I got creative with our Lenten sacrifices. It was an idea I had, loosely based on a Holy
About a week ago, I joined the cool kids club and got to see The Force Awakens in theaters. It was a fantastic movie, and
As a father of three girls all under the age of five, I see my fair share of princess tales. To be perfectly honest, most
Thanks to the great folks at Image Books, I was able to get a review copy of a The Choice of the Family: A Call
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve had a chance to take my two oldest daughters roller-skating at a local skating rink. They’re 4 years
One of my favorite authors, Dietrich von Hildebrand, makes an interesting argument about the relationship between beauty and virtue. Essentially, what he said was that
Though I was born in 1984, I grew up watching re-runs of The Cosby Show. So, naturally, I grew up really liking Bill Cosby. I probably didn’t
Over the last few months, especially with upcoming Synod on the Family this Fall, lots of rumors are swirling about what the Church will or
Lately, while browsing my otherwise innocuous Facebook wall, I have seen a multitude of people sharing a nifty, colorful flow-chart which sarcastically shows how silly
Thanks to the mysteries of the internet, I’ve wound up befriending Stephen Bullivant through Facebook over the last couple of years and this January he
Last week, hundreds of thousands marched in Washington, D.C. to petition Congress and the Supreme Court to do something about the unspeakable atrocity of abortion in
A reader of Ignitum Today requested an article that in some way addresses the question of what it means to be Catholic today, especially in
Even in the typically Catholic circles I find myself in most days, Dietrich von Hildebrand isn’t exactly a household name. In fact, I only discovered
One of the most surprising things about being a parent is the number of times I realize that my children are really the ones teaching
Last week, a viral story started making the rounds about a young woman named Brittany Maynard, a 29 year-old newlywed who was diagnosed with brain cancer in
In the classic Bill Murray flick Groundhog Day, Punxsutawney Phil is called a “prognosticator of prognosticators.” Catholics could borrow that phrase and apply it to St.
