Brandon Vogt has written a masterpiece in Saints and Social Justice: A Guide to Changing the World (OSV, May 2014). Brandon’s writing and theological talents
One of the key issues in our church today is that we are disconnected. Regardless of whether the church is full or its empty on
Easter is coming; fast! I mean the action, not the adjective. It’s a command. Once Easter comes, it seems, we forget about this wonderful act
By now, those who have been monitoring the events in the Philippines know that the Supreme Court upheld as constitutional the Reproductive Health Law except
As Catholics, we know that we have a call to be “in the world, not of the world.” I find that many use this catchy
By the time you are reading this, we will have crowned a new NCAA champion; since the final four has not yet happened while I
You hear a lot of things when you walk down a hallway filled with 200 teenage girls. Some hilarious, some tragic, some ridiculous, and some
Life, in all its glory, is pretty messy. Sin skips and trips us through life as we try to be faithful and nothing halts us
News broke a few days ago that Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta has issued an apology following the disclosure that he spent 2.2 million on his
I recently blew an opportunity to share my faith at work. It was a Friday afternoon and management bought pizza for the office to celebrate
If I look deep, I find my inner self hooked up to a drip IV of success. I heard once at a summer retreat that
Our world is filled with a lot of hatred. One must only turn on talk radio or the nine o’clock news to see this. For
He kneels before me, taking my hand in his, and slips a ring on my finger. I look it at: it’s beautiful, so sparkly, and
With the call to the new evangelisation, how do we pass on the faith in today’s world? In his 2014 Message for World Communications Day,
By now everyone has seen the Italian Ursuline Sister, Cristina Sciuccia, on the Italian show equivalent of “The Voice.” Go here if you need a
Discovering a new-to-me musician is such a great feeling. I am a music lover, and I love all genres, but I have a special love
As I’ve discussed in the first two parts of this series, Pope Francis has made it clear that he wants to see the Catholic youth
Lent is a great time to be inspired. If you haven’t given up your television, laptop, media, or internet, try and find one or more
Dr. Quirino Sugon, Jr. is a scientist; a physicist, to be exact. He derives equations using geometric algebra while teaching physics at the Ateneo de
From the time of Karl Marx, who famously said that religion “is the opium of the people,” to our own days when modern secularists think
We’ve all heard the comments. If you are the parents of more than 2.5 children or come from a family of more than 2.5 siblings,
