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
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
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,
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
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
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
My training is in Classics. That kind of nearly obsessive focus on grammar bears some peculiar fruit in my day to day life. For one,
This morning I witnessed the coolest thing. My husband and I were on our way to work, winding through the back roads when we saw
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.
Dear child, I see the good in you. Satan would love nothing more than for you to get lost in your sin and shame. I
Before I left for college, I wrote about how my tendency to control and plan every aspect of my life often hurt more than it
Due to many scheduling conflicts a few Sundays back, I went to Mass by myself without the wife and kids. Over the past month or
Wait…you want me to be involved? This week was our parish’s Ministry Fair. They have been publicizing this fair for weeks. When we headed over
Foreign languages, I realize, are not for everyone. Many can go throughout their whole lives content to read Scripture in their native language. I certainly
When I first heard about indulgences I was pretty skeptical; they can sound so cold, clear-cut and strangely precise in an imprecise world. Now that
I have been nerding out since I discovered that archive.org has digitized the 1912 edition of the Decreta Authentica Sacræ Congregationis Rituum, which contains all 4,284
This week, an in-depth interview with Pope Francis was released in Jesuit publications around the world. In the opening question, “Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?”,
I am enthralled and enamored by air travel. There’s something about squishing down in a tiny seat next to a total stranger in the middle
Someone close to me, who left the Catholic Church a long time ago, recently said something along the lines of, “I just got to a point where I
