4 July 2005, what a patriotic day to be shipped off to basic training! Jeans, a t-shirt, and a backpack with just about every essential I
I began that night to pray for unity within the Church. I remain hopeful that I may come to see a re-union of Christianity in my lifetime, and I hope that others may come to see that there is room – there will always be room – at the Table of our Lord’s Supper.
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.
“We need to be clear in presenting the Church’s teaching, but patient with the struggle to live it.” This quote comes from Cardinal Timothy Dolan,
My three year old son was a ring bearer in a wedding a few weeks ago. I couldn’t help myself, he just looked so adorable,
Disclaimer: This article is going to sound cynical. It might even sound anti-Christian. Please stick with it. There is a point. I am sarcastic and
At least in Portugal, news of the preparatory document for the Synod of Bishops in October 2014 on the topic family arrived on mainstream radio
The Church functions within a monarchical structure – this is important to remember. In addition to this, though, Her system applies to operations in the
Growing up as…well, what I’m coming to find out was a typical Catholic experience, an American first, and generally void of any substantial access to the living and
The title is a Facebook status that one of my friends once posted. When I saw it, I thought she was asking for prayers because
Among the many things that Christ taught His disciples, charity is one of the principles focus groups in office buildings would label as a “core
First of all: Happy Halloween, Happy All Saints Day, Happy All Souls Day, and Happy Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time! This sequence of days (okay,
We ran this lovely guest column from Jessamine last year on All Saints Day. Here it is again. Several years back, I ordered some green
One Trick Pony, One Message Fool At the risk of sounding like a broken record in everything I write, both at Ignitum and elsewhere, let me
From my pastor’s homily this weekend: “Either a Christian heightens the quality of human life, making it more palatable, more delightfully nourishing, or else he
A common methodological error of novice apologists is proof-texting (yes, Catholic apologists are just as guilty of this fallacy as our Protestant brethren). Proof-texting can
I was giving a talk at my home parish on the early Church when a woman came up to me. Pointing at her heart she
In college I went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I am not much of a science geek so I
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
Well, the Hail Mary is a historical and biblical phrase addressed by an angel of God to a virgin called Mary. This historic event is
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
