Columnists
Kat Larson

Teenage Melodrama

I have always defined myself as a hopeless romantic, a true sucker for a good story where true love triumphs and happily ever after wins

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Columnists
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

Growing in the Silence

When I was first ordained, the rigidity that has been criticized on some clerics existed in me. My Spiritual Director told me I had a

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Prayer
Christina M. Sorrentino

Love Amidst the Thorns

“Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to

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Scripture
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

The Mission of Evangelization

The Church’s mission to evangelize should not ever be conflated with colonialism.  Evangelization, according to the Church is a spiritual movement that can embrace the

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Columnists
Fr. Joseph Gill

Indwelling Trinity

When Cardinal Timothy Dolan was a young priest, he was in charge of running an RCIA program for adults who wanted to convert and become

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Prayer
Kat Larson

Pruning Hurts

Once again, the Catholic Church has reached the point in its liturgical year called Ordinary Time. For most of my life, I have heard priests

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Religion
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

What is Right and Just?

There is a temptation I believe in our culture to present one’s self as outraged in order to deflect possible accusations of indifference or ambivalence

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Life
Guest Writer

Pebbles at Another’s Feet

By guest writer Sister Mary Vianney Lyon, O.P. Saint Paul writes to the Thessalonians that we are not meant to grieve “like those who have

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Mercy and Killing
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

Called to Repentance

A church which seeks its own survival, it would seem to me, is not living by it’s actual mission. Christ taught us that each follower

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Columnists
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

A Relationship with Christ

I’ve been reflecting on this lately: it’s easier to speak to our culture about having a “personal relationship” with Christ than delving right into the

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Columnists
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

Looking at the Fruits

People, once they taste bad fruit, will be less than likely to pick from the same tree. The Church is full of rotten fruit these

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Columnists
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

Faith and Works

Instruction is like a bottle of oil handed to you. The oil will make the mechanisms of yourself move with ease, remain healthy, and safeguard

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Spirituality
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

Growing as Disciples

A great deal of the Church’s energy from the time of my youth until now has emphasized the importance of catechesis and education in regard

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Feasts
Fr. Joseph Gill

Fruit of Holiness

“The end of all things is at hand” – that’s how our readings started off today, from the Apostle Peter. Yes, the end of school

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Life
Kat Larson

My Life For Rent

This was the title of a song by the artist Dido. I listened to her music almost nonstop for a period during my teenage years.

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