Promise and Challenge: Catholic Women Reflect on Feminism, Complementarity, and The Church. Kinda says it all, doesn’t it? In this book a group of distinguished,
“Put not your trust in princes,” we are warned (Psalm 146:3). During the last eight years, excepting possibly during the midterm elections, most faithful Catholics
I jumped at the chance to review AT PLAY IN GOD’S CREATION: AN ILLUMINATING COLORING BOOK, because as the kid in all of us knows, nothing
But they said to him, “Five loaves and two fish are all we have here.” Then he said, “Bring them here to me,” and he
“Cimourdain was a pure-minded but gloomy man. He had ‘the absolute’ within him. He had been a priest, which is a solemn thing. Man may
“Our souls demand Purgatory, don’t they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, ‘It is true, my son, that your breath
One of the things I run into a lot in talking about faith with those who do not share the faith, is the question of
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. —Proverbs 18:21 And if any man think
But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place. Who crying to their companions
Particles of Faith, by Stacy Trasancos, is a must-read for Catholics (and others of good faith) who are weary of the vitriol in the faith-science
I once read an article where the author questioned the social convention of introducing people by their name and occupation. She pointed out that it
Yet another summer has slipped away, remaining only a memory. Just like nature, the seasons of our lives changing is inevitable; it doesn’t always happen
I first encountered Servant of God Elisabeth Leseur about five years ago when I was towards the beginning stages of my spiritual dry spell. The
The episode from the gospel today has always been one of my favorites. I have always pictured the mother of James and John as being
One of the more memorable G.K. Chesterton’s “Father Brown” stories is The Resurrection of Father Brown. In this short story the titular character is “murdered”
If you’re a woman, I’m willing to bet that you have struggled with trying to be some definition of “perfect” at one point or another.
A few weeks ago I had to make a trip back to the place of my origin as a Special Forces Soldier, a.k.a. Fort Bragg,
Once upon a time, out near Texas somewhere, I was conducting a training exercise. It was a an IED response/mass casualty lane and one of
The term “social justice” is one which is unfortunately polarized and even politically charged, thanks in no small part to the rise of the “Social
“Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.” – Matthew 5:8 For most of my life I thought that the “purity of
The eminent twentieth century theologian Henri de Lubac writes in his Paradoxes of the Faith that there are two important truths to keep in mind
