
Healed by Sticks (Or Why I Love Going to Confession)
I wish I could say that I’ve only been to the hospital once because I was bleeding profusely from my head. At least the second

I wish I could say that I’ve only been to the hospital once because I was bleeding profusely from my head. At least the second

If you want to be a good Catholic, you gotta read your Bible. But the Church advises us: “sacred tradition, Sacred Scripture and the teaching authority

I love being let down. I’ve started relishing the realization that I have to relinquish what I thought a given outcome would look and feel like

I really do love our priests. There are so many holy and faithful servants that never tire to bring souls to Christ. My pastor at
Over the past several weeks, faithful Catholics have been circling the wagons in an attempt to understand what’s gone wrong with the culture, and what

Once again I let this blog sneak up on me. My first clue that it was my week to write an IT post was when

In January 1864, the Protestant pastor and novelist Charles Kingsley reviewed an English history book for Macmillan’s Magazine. The review began innocently enough. Kingsley critiqued

I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. This is my commandment: love one another

Mexico is a crux for some great Orthodox Catholic practices. During my time there as a missionary, one practice in particular struck me as especially

The man Saul of Tarsus was once a terrible name to the infant Church of Christ as he was noted to carry out torture and

I did a lot of thinking in my idealistic twenties about how I’m going to start a revolution and change the world. At times, as

(among other things) To our dear separated brothers and sisters, nothing comes across as more counterintuitive to the Christian religion than the Pope. The great german theologian,

Sometimes it is necessary to stop ourselves and retreat, to open ourselves and realign our thinking with the ways of God. If we don’t do

I was inspired to re-post this article after reading Cristina Montes”s On Spe Salvi and The Lord of the Rings. I would highly recommend that

I’ve heard it opined by the occasional atheist that he not only believes that God does not exist, but actually desires to be right in

Then He also said to him who invited Him, “When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your

From the Roman collar to the brown scapular, the Church has developed a plethora of physical signs one can sport to testify to his faith

Looking ahead, Advent begins in less than a month, so now’s a good time to prepare for how you will prepare. Just in time for

Lest you think I’m writing about the “other” cafeteria Catholic as one standing in judgment, I want to give you a little back story. I

A couple of months ago I logged-on to find the following e-mail appropriately shuffled into my high priority inbox: “How you do keep your hope?

“Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?” This is the question pondered by Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner at a forced-labor camp in