Even the most devout Catholics have to drag themselves to mass on some days. What should we do when attending mass seems more like a
As Lent approaches, everyone is asking their kids, and deciding for themselves, “What are you going to ‘give up’ for Lent?” Why am I putting
Don Miller is a prominent Evangelical Christian writer. And he doesn’t go to church much… at all. But wait, I hear you saying, don’t all Christians
For those of us in the cold-weather states, and even for many of you in the traditionally warm-weather areas of the United States, this winter
In my last article I talked about a personal revelation from God dealing with the Eucharist. I mentioned that while, at the time, I understood
Forgive the (now somewhat dated) reference to the 80s movie, Romancing the Stone. In his latest book, Fr. Dwight Longenecker seeks to romance something even more
This topic is one that has been the subject of much reflection for me over the past several months after having read Chiara Lubich’s “Mary,
How happy really are we today? How do we define that we have really ‘lived’? We live in a marketing led world – a place
“The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord! We accept good things from God; and should we not accept evil?” (Job
I’ve been purposefully sitting out of the Pope Francis media frenzy ever since it started. I wanted to watch and see what happened instead of
I think I’ve owned a total of three Bibles in my life: 1. My pink Precious Moments Bible from my childhood. 2. The New American
“There is no salvation outside the church” What a frightful assertion. You have probably heard it, but do you know where it comes from? This
In a similar vein to my post about Duck Dynasty and A&E’s clear message to Christians, I wanted to recall attention to this article posted
I only recently started writing for Ignitum Today, with my first article being published a few weeks ago about standing against moral relativity. You can
I recently read an article about childhood and play and the increasingly all pervasive place of school in the lives of children. School work which
The Liturgy of the Hours (LOtH) in ancient method of prayer. They have their roots in Jewish traditions where God’s chosen people would gather together
The vows of religious life are repulsive, at least according to an article Br. Justin Hannegan recently wrote in Crisis Magazine provokingly titled: Sacrificing Religious
There are way more things to know in this Universe than you have the brain cells to record, and any one field of human study
As a classic “go-along-to-get-along” kind of guy, I would love to sugar coat my aim in this article, but I am just going to come
Last night in one of my classes, my teacher brought up the pseudo-indeliblity of self that has been ushered in by the age of social
Dear Father, I thought of you today, and hoped you were doing well. I got to thinking about the role you”ve had in my life,
