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By guest writer Dominic Cooray. I came across an idea over at Art of Manliness that I took for granted as a kid: In his farewell address

By guest writer Dominic Cooray. I came across an idea over at Art of Manliness that I took for granted as a kid: In his farewell address

We are in a spiritual battle right now. Society is challenging women, and the men that support them, to rethink femininity and what it means

Not just the Catholic world, but the whole world benefits greatly from the “voice” of Anthony Esolen and the special instruction he bequeaths to humanity

God is closer to us than water is to a fish. – St. Catherine of Siena Water is weird. Have you ever had that thought?

One of the questions I struggle with sometimes is how much time I ought to be spending in prayer on a daily basis. This is

If you love me, you will keep my commandments.[1] On the face of it, Christ’s words seem obvious: of course we’ll obey Christ because we

As a child, one of my favorite things about Christmas was the Nativity scenes. From the teeny-tiny one on my family’s home altar to the

Loneliness has two faces. One is human loneliness, and the other is loneliness for the divine. “My heart shall not rest until it rest in

I was a solo traveler in the pilgrimage I joined to the Holy Land and Turkey. Most of the others in the pilgrimage were traveling

In this technology-saturated world, Teresa Tomeo speaks from personal experience and candid observation on what we all need to do to be better followers of

One of the highlights of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land that I was on recently, was witnessing married couples renew their marriage vows in

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. —G. K. Chesterton When I was little, one of my

“He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and

It is a strange thing, but we as human beings are often eager critics. It is so easy to criticize, to catch the flaws and

The image of God that parents can portray is meant to make a mark in the hearts and memories of the children it serves. In
I am late writing this blog because I have been busy this week. I am almost always busy, but this week is busier than most

There are a great variety of vocations in life, but all require a deep, persistent love. Whether we look at our vocation in general terms

Don’t we all long to see God? Yet, so much of the time, He remains largely invisible to us. How does He reveal Himself in

You may not be able to create life, but you can almost always save one. If you say yes.

(This post originally appeared on www.yellowpelican.net) It started with an episode of the Magic School Bus and ended with a trip to Urgent Care. Last
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,