Last August, I wrote about why everyone should have kids. At several points in the combox, I was called out for being selfish. According to
As the day of Christ’s birth hurtles towards us, it is definitely easy to get caught up in the spin of things. Retailers, desperate to
We’re in the thick of the Christmas season, well, the secular Christmas season. We all know the Christmas season doesn’t start until after Christmas, right?
“The Victorians pretended sex did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.” Archbishop Fulton J Sheen This is my first post writing for Ignitum
A few weeks ago, an article titled “Marriage Isn’t For You” popped up all over my newsfeed. Of course, I clicked because when I want
I’m an introvert. I’m not shy, I just like books, quiet get-togethers and lots of alone time. I do not like too much noise, attention
The Catholic Church is often times accused of being too “redundant” and “religious”. Let me respond to this by offering a comparison analogous to marriage.
Who are considered the “young adults” in your community? Are they teenagers? Are they single twenty-somethings? Are they young professionals? Are they young mothers and
I have written before about some of the challenges that face recent college graduates in the transition from school to the workforce. As the tedious parts
Simcha Fisher’s book, The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning, is still sitting pretty in the Top 10 on Amazon’s list of Catholic books. The
But when sex is divorced from love there is a feeling that one has been stopped at the vestibule of the castle of pleasure; that
Liturgy is a lot like parenting. No. Liturgy IS parenting. Jesus Christ is the groom and His Church the bride. Together they have done a
Children have minds of their own. They do their own thing and love to find ways to become their own person. This makes it difficult
When my fiancé and I were still just dating, we approached our priest and spiritual director and asked him how we might discern if we
Let’s talk about awkward for a minute. How about when your family is talking about the wedding someone just went to: the flowers, the ceremony,
Since Feb. 28, 2013 — the last day of Pope Benedict’s papacy — I’ve been harboring a secret. A secret I’m ready to share. I
By James Franke I’ve heard the argument a hundred times, phrased a hundred different ways. It all boils down to the same basic mentality: short
Last year, in the days before my wedding, I wrote about Deuteronomy 24:5: “When a man is newly wed, he shall not go out on a military
Recently my son and I were at the grocery store. He was wearing a Thomas the Tank Engine shirt and was playing with the cart as
One of the 14 part-time jobs I had while I was in college was as a messenger for a high-powered law firm in Minneapolis, MN.
Jesus Christ, the model par excellence of evangelization, turned over tables and called spiritual authorities “vipers”, but in regards to the world around Him he
