The chaplain of the pilgrimage I joined to the Holy Land repeatedly told our group that after the pilgrimage, we will never read the Gospels
A somewhat recent article in Scientific America caught my eye: this one is about aging, or rather it is about reversing the effects of aging.
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
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. —Kurt D. Bruner, Kurt Bruner, Jim Ware, Finding God in the Lord of
God is closer to us than water is to a fish. – St. Catherine of Siena Water is weird. Have you ever had that thought?
On my onomastica or name day, the feast of my Confirmation patroness St. Elizabeth of Hungary, my friend Anne gave me a blank paper fan
There is good reason that St. Francis de Sales is the patron of writers—he really had a way with words. During his lifetime, he wrote
“Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying God is hard to find.” –Archbishop Fulton Sheen “We do what
An Anglican friend told me that she does not bother to cultivate deep friendships with non-Christians—although she certainly treats them civilly and shares the Gospel
Yesterday I finished the first book I’ve ever read by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. I’m quite proud of myself. This isn’t the first one I’ve started.
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
Prayer is not worship. Worship is a subset of prayer. Worship, properly speaking, entails sacrifice, a gift of something precious to honour the deity worshipped.
If you are a Star Wars fan, you have likely felt either excitement or apprehension when considering the release of “Rogue One”. This is uncharted
If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he wrongs you seven times in one day and returns to
One of the sites included in the itinerary of the Holy Land pilgrimage I joined was the Chapel of the Angels, a Catholic church located
A long time ago in my college dorm room, I was showing a friend the blog Creative Minority Report. It takes its name from Pope
It is said that the most popular theory for the beginning of time and space is the Big Bang. This is the theory which states
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
St. Benedict gives us a remarkable example of discipline. His simple motto, Ora et labora—pray and work—is still relevant to our own lives, so many centuries
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
